Kenya: Numbers That Don't Add Up of Roads Built Under Jubilee Leadership

If Kenyans are to believe the country's data agency, President Uhuru Kenyatta's administration went on a road-building spree in 2017, that by the end of the year, the government had built 6,100 kilometres of new tarmac roads using just a quarter of the resources needed.

This road construction miracle is in the Economic Survey 2018, which says even though the government allocated Sh140.3 billion for 1,247 km of new roads, the Kenya Roads Board had recorded that it built 6,100km of new roads surpassing the target four-fold, without additional resources!

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