{"id":1130262,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1130262/?format=json","text_counter":101,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Uhuru Kenyatta","speaker_title":"His Excellency the President","speaker":{"id":168,"legal_name":"Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta","slug":"uhuru-kenyatta"},"content":"In respect of roads infrastructure, when my administration came to the helm, there were 11,200 kilometres of tarmacked roads constructed by four previous administrations in 123 years. Like I said, I include the colonisers as well. In eight years, my administration has multiplied what the previous administrations had done by a factor of two. We have built 10,500 kilometres of roads across the Republic and doing so 15 times faster than the previous administrations. I will expound on this in a little while. On the railway, on the eve of Madaraka Day in 2017, we marked a transformative moment for Kenya and for Africa, when the Madaraka Express made its inaugural journey from"}