We need to do that - and more - to get to south africa level in 2030 - who have like 30,000kms of railway - while we have like 3,000kms of completely dilapidated rail - we need to invest 10 times - that mean Mombasa to Malaba - Lamu to Lokichogio - Moyale to Namanga - and then in the 5 cities - we need intra-city train.Ethiopia without our tax revenues are doing it.
The same for road infrastructure - we have 18,000 paved roads - we need to get 100,000kms - the same with water - we are nearly getting there in electricity, broadband and etc.
Where will the money come from? I think Dr Ruto knows where to find money. Our gov has so many assets it doesn't need.
We need to sell Safaricom, kengen, KAA, Kenya Pipeline, National Oil and so many other assets - that can easily gives us 10B dollars - enough to fund LAPSET - and we can borrow the rest.We can also sell even Nairobi National Park to Chinese - to build houses. 17Kms of prime land without any animals.
WSR when he get to power - will find the money and bridge our infrastructure deficit. There should be no argument or long debate about basic stuff like roads, railways, power stations, dams, piped water, sewage, broadband, airports,seaports, lake ports and such critical infrastructure.
If Uhuru and our fake genius Dr Hustler - had an iota of brains - they would go for subway in Nairobi - optimize mobility for the Nbo-Macha-Kajiado-Kiambu metropolis. That can have proper return. Billions wasted in traffic in Nairobi have been quantified by WB, IMF, IBM, etc - numerously.
Simple math - Nairobi GDP x 4/12 hrs folks waste on the roads daily.
It's a hanging fruit - very exciting obvious opportunity - except to the hare-brained Jubilee.
