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Madaraka Day Speech: President Uhuru Kenyatta on Madaraka Day said that his government has done more to improve the country and better the lives of Kenyans than all previous governments combined.

The president said that at independence Kenya only had a measly 1,800 kilometres of tarmacked roads. The 1800 kilometres of tarmac had been built by the colonizers in the span of  78 years that they were in Kenya. “This means every year they only managed to tarmac a total of 23 kilometres.,” he said.

He added that after independence, our Founding Fathers built an extra 11,200 kilometres of tarmacked roads.

“This was done in a period of 50 years by President Jomo Kenyatta, President Moi and President Kibaki, at an average of 224 kilometres per year. This was 10 times what the colonizers had done. But with better technology, planning and efficiencies, my Administration has built 1,000 kilometres of tarmacked roads every year. This is 44 times more than what the colonial administration built, and more than 4 times what the first three Administrations built collectively per year,” said Uhuru.

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In the Madaraka Day speech, he further noted that his government had revived the collapsed port of Kisumu and railway lines in Kenya.

“Apart from the Port of Lamu, which will change regional trade dynamically, the other project is the Port of Kisumu. This port was built by the colonizers, but it collapsed at some point. We have since revived it for strategic purposes. Lake Victoria serves both the northern and the southern corridors.

And with this port, Kenya can service the region from Mwanza and Bukoba in Tanzania, to Jinja and Entebbe in Uganda; and Muhoma Bay in Rwanda at affordable costs and decent timing. Beyond serving the region, the port is poised to promote the ship-building and repair industry in Kenya. It will also catalyze the development of other small Ports. And what I am proud of most, is that we revived the dead capital in this port using local expertise and material.”

He emphasized that his SGR railway line was not a railway to nowhere:

“Turning to railways now, this is where my biggest critiques reside. But that’s ok, they are not alone, they are in fellowship with the colonizers who called our railway the Lunatic Express. But those who called it the railway to nowhere did not realise that they were describing Nairobi. Nairobi was a nowhere, when the railway was being constructed,” he said.