Infrastructure investment, if well channelled, has a huge positive multiplier effect on an economy. During the G7 meeting in June 2021 in Cornwall, the US President reiterated the importance of infrastructure investment in stimulating economic growth.
In 2008, Kenya launched a long-term economic development blueprint dabbed the Vision 2030 that demonstrated Kenya’s aspirations to be an industrialised, middle-income country providing high quality of life to all citizens by 2030.
For Kenya to attract more infrastructure investment especially from the private sector, we need to embark on long-term infrastructure planning that aims at building a National Infrastructure Strategy.
