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Kenya: Infrastructure Development, Healthcare Reforms Major Govt Gains – Kenyatta

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Nairobi — President Uhuru Kenyatta has described infrastructure development, digitization and healthcare reforms as some of the major gains in his government.

While addressing Kenyans during his last Madaraka Day Celebrations at the Uhuru Gardens, President Kenyatta said his administration has set the bar higher and it has built more roads than the last three regimes’ including the colonial government ever did

“When My Administration took over the helm of leadership, we knew we had only a maximum of two terms to accomplish a very ambitious agenda. And the challenge was that the bar set by my predecessor, the late President Kibaki, was high. To face this challenge, we had to first embrace what previous administrations had done and accelerate their achievements. This was part of the big push,” he stated.

“Today, I am proud to record that, if the Third Administration built 2,000 Kms of tarmac roads, we accelerated his achievement by building over 11,000 Kms, which is close to six times what they built. In fact, we have built more roads in 9 years than what the previous administrations combined, including the colonizers, built in 123 years,” he indicated.

The Head of State who spoke passionately about his achievements, told off critics saying he gave them a deaf ear which enabled him to deliver to Kenyans

“The naysayers said that we should not invest so heavily in infrastructure. Because people don’t eat roads and floating bridges. I refused their pessimism because I know what a new road means to the farmer who has for decades been unable to get their produce quickly to the market,” President Kenyatta said.

“I refused to delay the dream of world-class ports and fishing-support infrastructure because I wanted that fisherman in our oceans and lakes to be able gain more from the sweat of their brow.”

He took credit for having completed the construction of the Nairobi Expressway in 18 months saying under normal circumstances, it would have taken 4 years to build it but his government achieved in a year and a half because it believed in Kenya, in its people, and in themselves as government.

President Kenyatta also boasted of having led from front the push to accelerate service delivery to Kenyans through digitization.

The Head of State cited the introduction of Huduma Centres and online platform eCitizen which he said makes access to public services a fast and pleasant experience, “not a toil that every citizen must endure so as to obtain basic services.”