Raila Odinga’s tenure as Minister for Roads, Public Works, and Housing from 2003 to 2005 marks one of the most consequential periods in Kenya’s modern infrastructural and economic history.
Appointed under President Mwai Kibaki’s National Rainbow Coalition government, Odinga inherited a crippling challenge: a dilapidated road network, with only about 10 percent of Kenya’s 60,000 kilometres paved, a fractured governance structure, and an economy struggling just to stay afloat.
