Uhuru Kenyatta

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• 30 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: 19. Similarly, the county has developed a Universal Health Coverage Insurance scheme known as Makueni Care. And all this has been catalysed by our principle of resource percolation to the emerging county structures. Another example of county innovation is in Kajiado. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the county looked for a way of distributing food to hungry members of its populace. Through an integrated system dubbed M-Riziki, which virtually linked financiers and beneficiaries, 30,000 households of the population were able to receive food using the system in 2020. M-Riziki saved the county the logistical nightmare of transportation. The ... view
• 30 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Allow me now to report on the second frame of my development agenda, which I referred to in my Madaraka Day Speech of this year as the ‘Big Push Investments’. These are bold undertakings that are futuristic in outlook. Most of these investments are in the form of roads, rail, and ports. Some of them are a revival of the dead capital installed by the previous administrations, which are, nonetheless, critical to our development path today. Regarding roads, the handiwork of my administration is evident across the entire country. There are some counties which have received their first tarmacked roads ... view
• 30 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: From being ranked as the 12th wealthiest nation in Africa when I took over, we have moved six ranks to become the 6th wealthiest nation on the continent, on account of the choices we have made. As I said earlier, in the second quarter of this year, our real GDP grew by 10.1 per cent, the first such growth in the history of our economy. The notable contributors to this growth include the ICT sector, which grew by a significant 25.1 per cent in the second quarter of 2021. In fact, the ICT sector is projected to become a prime ... view
• 30 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Currently, that journey takes you three hours, which is the equivalent of flying to Addis Ababa and back. view
• 30 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Members, ladies and gentlemen, given that we have doubled our GDP in a record eight years, it is no wonder that Kenya is projected to grow twice as fast as the sub-Saharan economies in the period 2021/2022. This is all because of leadership and the power of choice. Allow me to give further examples of acceleration and the multiplication of our fundamentals as a strategic intent of my administration. A case in point is that as we have doubled our real GDP, we have also doubled our road network across the entire Republic. Besides the road‟s infrastructure, my administration ... view
• 30 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: 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 view
• 30 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: 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 ... view
• 30 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Mombasa to Nairobi. The largest infrastructure project in Africa had become a reality, and a brand-new modern railway had become a feature of our homeland and nation. Since then, the way we travel to Mombasa has been redefined with Madaraka Express having served 6,495,027 passengers; while our cargo gets to the stores of our enterprises efficiently and in time with a record 17.6 million tonnes of cargo transported from 1st January, 2018 to yesterday 29th November, 2021. Turning to power generation, our acceleration model was applied to the production and distribution of electricity countrywide. When I took the oath of ... view
• 30 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: In the eight years, we have connected 1.7 million more households than Egypt. Similarly, we have connected as many households as South Africa and Nigeria combined during the eight years of my administration. In real terms, only 2.3 million households had been connected to power when I took over in 2013. In eight years, we have tripled this number by connecting an extra 6.3 million households. Put differently, and guided by our acceleration model, we have connected approximately 787,500 households every year or an average of 2,000 connections a day since 2013. By any measure, this acceleration is noteworthy. Besides ... view
• 30 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: success of the county structures, we followed our accelerated devolution of functions with two critical drivers. One, we undertook a massive transfer of highly skilled civil servants from the national government to the county governments. This battery of highly trained personnel was meant to give the county governments a head start. They did so in terms of setting up the county public services, including their operating structures and systems. Two, within the first year of my tenure, my administration increased the equitable share allocation to county governments from the constitutionally mandated 15 per cent to 32 per cent. This was ... view