Focused infrastructure: MP Kariuki on roads, debt safety

National Assembly's Transport & Infrastructure Committee Chairman George Kariuki at Continental House, Nairobi on February 18,2025. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Kenya is investing heavily in infrastructure. From your vantage point as chair of the Transport and Infrastructure Committee, how critical is infrastructure to national development?

There is no country anywhere in the world that has developed without a deliberate, well-planned and well-executed infrastructure framework. Infrastructure is not cosmetic. It is not about ribbon-cutting ceremonies. It is the backbone of economic activity.