Nairobi's Southern bypass road is one of the major projects done by the Jubilee administration. [Photo/naibuzz.com]With President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto having finished four years since winning the 2013 general election, it’s time to look at their Jubilee scorecard. According to documents released by State House last week, the Jubilee administration is happy its development record, and hope to showcase the progress to Kenyans to earn President Kenyatta a second term to finish the on-going projects. “We are significantly better off than we were in 2013 and have major development and infrastructure,” The Nation quoted State House spokesman Manoah Esipisu as saying. Mr Esipisu said President Kenyatta’s administration had achieved a lot during the four years, and deserves a second term to finish the projects. “There is more road network done by this administration than any other in Kenya, and we have improved electricity connection to homes from 27 per cent to 60 per cent in 2017,” he said. The president is expected to list his achievements when he addresses a joint seating of MPs and senators on Wednesday this week. Some of Jubilee’s biggest achievements, according to Deputy President William Ruto, are: offering free maternity services to all mothers (more than 1.2 million women are now benefitting, up from 600,000), scrapping of exam fees for all primary and secondary school students, increasing cancer dialysis machines from 44 to 289 and availing 58 new ICU beds. Another key milestone the Jubilee administration has made is connecting electricity to 12.4 million Kenyans , which is almost double the number of homes connected since independence. Having connected 22,245 schools countrywide to the national grid, up from 8,200 between 1963 and 2013, the Jubilee administration says only 1,166 schools are left to be connected. “We are doing the big things and the little ones that support welfare: maternity, exam fees and the likes. This might not be the big things, but they are impacting Kenyan lives in a way never seen before,” the State House spokesman said, as per a Nation report.It is estimated that more than 70% of Kenyans will be connected to electricity by the end of this year. At least 90 new ultrasound machines have been bought by the government, bringing the total number to 100. Esipisu also said Jubilee has built more than 2,300km of roads, with on-going works in another 2,327km and more than 2,500km planned this year.

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