Kenya’s $3.5 billion (Sh350 billion) inter-city expressway, will be delayed.

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This is after Members of Parliament raised concerns that the country was borrowing excessively.

While Kenya is ramping up construction of much-needed infrastructure to underpin economic growth, the cost of the mega projects, mostly financed by Chinese loans, has stirred concern that the debt is unsustainable for the $71 billion (Sh7.1 trillion) economy. 

With the project, the country's debt could rise to 58 per cent by the end of June, from 40.6 per cent in the 2011-12 fiscal year.

Construction of the 473km four-lane highway between Nairobi and Mombasa, will be undertaken by San Francisco-based Bechtel Group Inc.