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Mega projects to transform President Uhuru Kenyatta’s backyard

The five storey medical complex which is almost complete at Gatundu District Hospital. The market is just one of the many development projects that the government has initiated in the constituency. PHOTO: KAMAU MAICHUHIE.

KIAMBU: There is a feel good factor among Gatundu South residents and leaders. The constituency is at the centre of massive development projects worth billions of shillings rolled out by the national government after what residents term neglect by past regimes.

The constituency is the only one in history to produce two of Kenya’s four presidents – Mzee Jomo Kenyatta and his son Uhuru Kenyatta.

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