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    "content": "Let me add that plans to build a dual carriageway from Rironi, where the Nairobi Express Way will terminate to Mau Summit, are also at an advanced stage. Once completed, it will take just 45 minutes to drive from Nairobi to Naivasha. Across the Republic, in every region, we are converting dusty murram roads to world- class roads. Our dream is to create an efficient road network that links towns and cities, ports and stations, and markets to consumers. Over the last eight years, and for the first time since Independence, Kenya is now linked to four of its five neighbours by tarmacked roads. This is how we are facilitating the economic integration of our region, tearing down every barrier to the realisation of our shared aspirations as a people. For instance, by linking our road networks to the Northern Corridor, we are plugging into the multi-modal trade route that links the landlocked countries of the Great Lakes Region with the Kenyan Maritime Sea Port of Mombasa. Similarly, the East Africa Coastal Corridor Development Project will link us along the coastline from Malindi through Lunga Lunga up to Bagamoyo and Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania. The corridor will promote tourism and trade along the Indian Ocean. Of equal note, the Sirare Corridor will form an integral link to the Northern Corridor and is a major transit route for traffic to and from Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan. It links the border town of Sirare on the border of Kenya and Tanzania to South Sudan at Nakodok. With regard to ports, the development of the Port of Lamu has been a particular point of pride for my administration. This port was first conceptualised in 1972, nine years after we gained Independence. However, it took 39 years for works on the Port of Lamu to commence. Through our futuristic model of „Big Push Investments‟, we have made it a reality in only eight years. The Port of Lamu is the only post-colonial Sea Port in Africa, built and financed by an African Government."
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