The huge amounts of money allocated to develop infrastructure in the 2016/17 Budget indicates that President Uhuru Kenyatta and his team have taken to heart lessons on the important role roads and railways play in a country’s economic and social development.
The revival of the Sh260 billion road annuity programme last week is a further demonstration that State House and Treasury have found a way round the knotty issue of the perennial shortage of money to fund development projects.