Another loan may yet be needed to build the stretch from Kisumu to Malaba once Kenya secures funding for Naivasha to Kisumu line.
If the standard gauge railway line ever reaches Malaba, Kenya will have spend nearly a trillion shillings on the Jubilee's flagship project.
Kenya's Ambassador to China Sarah Serem has downplayed fears that the Asian superpower is trapping developing countries with debt using the Belt and Road Initiative.