•Thursday, June 01, 2006
dear kenyans, fellow government officials, honourable members of parliament, leader of the official opposition, members of the diplomatic missions and the international community at large, all protocols observed. it is with great pleasure that i address the nation on this great day in the calendar of our beloved country.
looking back it has been a long journey since we attained our internal self government rule. our formative years in the first five decades were characterized by poor economic policies, political exclusion, inequitable resource distribution and tribally allied institutions which energized corruption in major sectors of our economy. it is worth noting that during those times, our country did not degenerate to an ungovernable state and kenyans of good will thrived within and outside the country and made sure that the hope of a rejuvenated country never died. we salute the revolutionaries who over the years have held the falling pieces of our beloved nation together.
my fellow Kenyans, it is four years now since we the progressive professionals party (ppp) won the elections and formed a coalition government with our able partners the valiant vijana visionaries (vvv), the able africans abroad (aaa), business boost board (bbb) and the women will win (www) parties. we thank you for giving this coalition another mandate to pioneer the re-branding of Kenya as an economic hub for africa and a political success case for developing nations. we have mastered the art of constructive coalition building for the sake of developing our beloved country and are not bedevilled with the woes that hit the coalitions of yesteryears. it is a great lesson that mr & mrs wahenga taught our forefathers that ‘kidole kimoja haikiui chawa’ (one finger cannot kill a flea). indeed they left us a legacy that ‘umoja ni nguvu, utengano ni udhaifu’ (unity is strength, discord weakens) to which we have toed the line in our coalition.
we continue to uphold our policy of a lean government as well as a motivated, well remunerated and efficient civil service. this policy and competitively filling of all government appointments including cabinet positions have greatly enhanced the level of service delivery, professional ethics, accountability and efficiency of running the once rusty and callous government machinery. you all remember that even the position i hold was competitively filled as i took over from the www luminary with whom we were in the same coalition in the last political dispensation. we will continually revamp the interview board in charge of this noble concept and inject new and youthful talent as need arises. i am glad to report that the economic and political agenda has not changed and thank the www for laying the firm foundation on which we now build storeys upon storeys of prosperity for the enjoyment of every mwananchi in the republic.
allow me at the earliest opportunity to announce with great pride that we now have the patent rights to the hiv vaccine that have been successfully developed by our university research team. you are all aware that there have been great research advancements within this decade in the control, management and prevention of the hiv virus spread and kenya has been pioneering these efforts. i congratulate our university dons, lecturers and students who put their minds to such great course and to all the kenyans who participated in the trials. in a similar fashion to the way the government has been financing the anti retroviral therapy programme, which has seen many Kenyans get the therapy for free, the government will finance a nationwide immunisation programme of this new vaccine at no cost to the citizens.
the social work and medical fraternity sensitization campaigns on the spread of the virus have seen the infection rate drop to less than one percent within the last six years. aids related deaths have gone down tremendously and the society no longer stigmatises aids patients. we laud such great efforts by our fellow comrades. kenyans are also more responsible of their sexual conduct and have adhered to the abc concept of hiv transmission prevention to the letter. the government appreciates the stand the religious leaders have had for the last six years on the use of condoms. endorsing the use of condoms by the religious leaders has ensured that more kenyans are at less risk of contracting the virus. just like we eradicated the danger that malaria posed to our country through joint efforts, we are almost at the finishing line in winning the war against hiv.
the rise and rise of kenya within this decade can only be compared to the rise of china to an emergent super power status since the fall of the berlin wall. we continue to look up to this emerging super power and other asian tigers as the models of growth in our economy. our processed agricultural output exports and tourism from both the eastern and western world continue to be our leading exchange earners. indeed our policy of full processing of farm products before export i.e coffee, tea, fish, beef and other farm products have quadrupled the earnings to our farmers. the investments in the tourism sector with major campaigns on kenya as a tourist destination has seen the number of tourists rise to over 385 per cent more than what we had five years ago. the exploration of the concepts of domestic tourism and ecotourism has also contributed to the growth in this sector. we have reinvested 40 per cent of the tourism earnings in the improvement of the infrastructure, enhancement of security, cultural, forestry and wildlife conservation efforts as well as more tourism promotions. this year we are targeting our fellow african countries in a bid to increase the number of tourists visiting us from the african continent.
on the economy, we have had drastic changes in the manner in which government revenue is expensed that have led to redirection of revenue to profitable sectors. in addition to the national audit department, we have adopted hiring of renowned external auditor firms to independently examine the usage of government revenue. we have heavily subsidised our agricultural sector to enable farmers compete effectively in the global market as well as abolishing punitive taxes such as cess, council charges and roads levies in the agricultural zones. our coffee sector is now booming after we managed to sever links with the berlin cartels that have middle-manned our marketing efforts and we have regained our position of having the best coffee in the world used to blend other coffee from other producer countries.
we are aggressive in promoting our local products both at home and abroad. the sugar industry is second to none in the comesa region and the massive support of irrigation schemes has seen us regain the profitability of the rice and cotton industry. the construction industry is booming with the cement industry being the major beneficiary since we adopted cement as a major ingredient in the construction of our roads. this in turn has made the transport industry to be more gainful especially with the drilling of oil in the coast and northern eastern regions despite the threats we faced from our northern neighbours. our promotion of geothermal, biogas, molasses, solar and wind as alternative sources of energy has lowered greatly the cost of production in the manufacturing industry. our investments in the arid and semi arid areas through irrigation and infrastructural developments have greatly enhanced business prospects in these areas. if we are hit by a drought, we will comfortably feed all kenyans for a period of ten years without resorting to foreign aid.
kenya authoritatively intervened in the warring neighbours and brokered peace in somalia, zambia, zimbabwe, the recent insurgent in uganda and the greater lakes region. we are respected and have ultimately taken lead in the peace and security of the larger eastern africa. this has enabled us to cut down our defence budget by 75 percent and reallocated such immense funds to rural development. we have adequately trained rural project managers in project management skills to ensure that such funds are well utilised. we have achieved the millennium development goals and managed to repay all our loans to development partners 63 years before the stipulated time. comrades, we were heavily debt ridden but now we will be lenders, debtors no more.
we support somalia’s request to join the expansive eastern african federation. however, we are still opposed to the scrapping of individual nation’s republic status as suggested by tanzania who favours a seamless political federation. we ask our fellow federation partners and africa in whole to support kenya’s bid for the presidency of the five-year-old world political league. surely, we have come a long way taking the lead in world matters in the sub-saharan africa.
wakenya wazalendo, time will not allow me to talk about the successful digitization of all government institutions, the revolution in our telecommunication sector, the relocation of the capital to the more spacious and well designed for growth mukraal area, the development of the sports agenda right from the grassroots, the economic success in the north eastern regions, the successful review of our constitution that has stalled for the last 20 years and the advancements in the judicial process. others include the slum upgrading project, settling the squatters and the landless via a government buyout programme among other initiatives. the social programme catering for the less privileged in our society economically or otherwise is a great success and so far five developing countries are using our guidelines to implement such a policy. the social, political and economic empowerments of all these initiatives are evident for all to marvel at the power of efficient and accountable government. as your president with a ceo mandate, you can always access my jamaapoa blog and be up-to-date with various initiatives i am spearheading.
lastly, we at ppp coalition government accept the request by the hata tuzee tuko party (http) to send a representation to the coalition advisory committee. we continue to respect the opinions and views of our opposition colleagues at tuna kabila kalikali (tkk) party. however, we are not ready to incorporate their views in our decision making. We hope they never get to see the seat of power in this country again.
wananchi watukufu, as we commemorate this year’s madaraka day let us honour those who fought for our independence by not re-colonizing ourselves, fostering unity in diversity, responsibly governing ourselves and realising that the sky is not the limit. i love my beloved country, KENYA.
na hiyo, ni maendeleo…
looking back it has been a long journey since we attained our internal self government rule. our formative years in the first five decades were characterized by poor economic policies, political exclusion, inequitable resource distribution and tribally allied institutions which energized corruption in major sectors of our economy. it is worth noting that during those times, our country did not degenerate to an ungovernable state and kenyans of good will thrived within and outside the country and made sure that the hope of a rejuvenated country never died. we salute the revolutionaries who over the years have held the falling pieces of our beloved nation together.
my fellow Kenyans, it is four years now since we the progressive professionals party (ppp) won the elections and formed a coalition government with our able partners the valiant vijana visionaries (vvv), the able africans abroad (aaa), business boost board (bbb) and the women will win (www) parties. we thank you for giving this coalition another mandate to pioneer the re-branding of Kenya as an economic hub for africa and a political success case for developing nations. we have mastered the art of constructive coalition building for the sake of developing our beloved country and are not bedevilled with the woes that hit the coalitions of yesteryears. it is a great lesson that mr & mrs wahenga taught our forefathers that ‘kidole kimoja haikiui chawa’ (one finger cannot kill a flea). indeed they left us a legacy that ‘umoja ni nguvu, utengano ni udhaifu’ (unity is strength, discord weakens) to which we have toed the line in our coalition.
we continue to uphold our policy of a lean government as well as a motivated, well remunerated and efficient civil service. this policy and competitively filling of all government appointments including cabinet positions have greatly enhanced the level of service delivery, professional ethics, accountability and efficiency of running the once rusty and callous government machinery. you all remember that even the position i hold was competitively filled as i took over from the www luminary with whom we were in the same coalition in the last political dispensation. we will continually revamp the interview board in charge of this noble concept and inject new and youthful talent as need arises. i am glad to report that the economic and political agenda has not changed and thank the www for laying the firm foundation on which we now build storeys upon storeys of prosperity for the enjoyment of every mwananchi in the republic.
allow me at the earliest opportunity to announce with great pride that we now have the patent rights to the hiv vaccine that have been successfully developed by our university research team. you are all aware that there have been great research advancements within this decade in the control, management and prevention of the hiv virus spread and kenya has been pioneering these efforts. i congratulate our university dons, lecturers and students who put their minds to such great course and to all the kenyans who participated in the trials. in a similar fashion to the way the government has been financing the anti retroviral therapy programme, which has seen many Kenyans get the therapy for free, the government will finance a nationwide immunisation programme of this new vaccine at no cost to the citizens.
the social work and medical fraternity sensitization campaigns on the spread of the virus have seen the infection rate drop to less than one percent within the last six years. aids related deaths have gone down tremendously and the society no longer stigmatises aids patients. we laud such great efforts by our fellow comrades. kenyans are also more responsible of their sexual conduct and have adhered to the abc concept of hiv transmission prevention to the letter. the government appreciates the stand the religious leaders have had for the last six years on the use of condoms. endorsing the use of condoms by the religious leaders has ensured that more kenyans are at less risk of contracting the virus. just like we eradicated the danger that malaria posed to our country through joint efforts, we are almost at the finishing line in winning the war against hiv.
the rise and rise of kenya within this decade can only be compared to the rise of china to an emergent super power status since the fall of the berlin wall. we continue to look up to this emerging super power and other asian tigers as the models of growth in our economy. our processed agricultural output exports and tourism from both the eastern and western world continue to be our leading exchange earners. indeed our policy of full processing of farm products before export i.e coffee, tea, fish, beef and other farm products have quadrupled the earnings to our farmers. the investments in the tourism sector with major campaigns on kenya as a tourist destination has seen the number of tourists rise to over 385 per cent more than what we had five years ago. the exploration of the concepts of domestic tourism and ecotourism has also contributed to the growth in this sector. we have reinvested 40 per cent of the tourism earnings in the improvement of the infrastructure, enhancement of security, cultural, forestry and wildlife conservation efforts as well as more tourism promotions. this year we are targeting our fellow african countries in a bid to increase the number of tourists visiting us from the african continent.
on the economy, we have had drastic changes in the manner in which government revenue is expensed that have led to redirection of revenue to profitable sectors. in addition to the national audit department, we have adopted hiring of renowned external auditor firms to independently examine the usage of government revenue. we have heavily subsidised our agricultural sector to enable farmers compete effectively in the global market as well as abolishing punitive taxes such as cess, council charges and roads levies in the agricultural zones. our coffee sector is now booming after we managed to sever links with the berlin cartels that have middle-manned our marketing efforts and we have regained our position of having the best coffee in the world used to blend other coffee from other producer countries.
we are aggressive in promoting our local products both at home and abroad. the sugar industry is second to none in the comesa region and the massive support of irrigation schemes has seen us regain the profitability of the rice and cotton industry. the construction industry is booming with the cement industry being the major beneficiary since we adopted cement as a major ingredient in the construction of our roads. this in turn has made the transport industry to be more gainful especially with the drilling of oil in the coast and northern eastern regions despite the threats we faced from our northern neighbours. our promotion of geothermal, biogas, molasses, solar and wind as alternative sources of energy has lowered greatly the cost of production in the manufacturing industry. our investments in the arid and semi arid areas through irrigation and infrastructural developments have greatly enhanced business prospects in these areas. if we are hit by a drought, we will comfortably feed all kenyans for a period of ten years without resorting to foreign aid.
kenya authoritatively intervened in the warring neighbours and brokered peace in somalia, zambia, zimbabwe, the recent insurgent in uganda and the greater lakes region. we are respected and have ultimately taken lead in the peace and security of the larger eastern africa. this has enabled us to cut down our defence budget by 75 percent and reallocated such immense funds to rural development. we have adequately trained rural project managers in project management skills to ensure that such funds are well utilised. we have achieved the millennium development goals and managed to repay all our loans to development partners 63 years before the stipulated time. comrades, we were heavily debt ridden but now we will be lenders, debtors no more.
we support somalia’s request to join the expansive eastern african federation. however, we are still opposed to the scrapping of individual nation’s republic status as suggested by tanzania who favours a seamless political federation. we ask our fellow federation partners and africa in whole to support kenya’s bid for the presidency of the five-year-old world political league. surely, we have come a long way taking the lead in world matters in the sub-saharan africa.
wakenya wazalendo, time will not allow me to talk about the successful digitization of all government institutions, the revolution in our telecommunication sector, the relocation of the capital to the more spacious and well designed for growth mukraal area, the development of the sports agenda right from the grassroots, the economic success in the north eastern regions, the successful review of our constitution that has stalled for the last 20 years and the advancements in the judicial process. others include the slum upgrading project, settling the squatters and the landless via a government buyout programme among other initiatives. the social programme catering for the less privileged in our society economically or otherwise is a great success and so far five developing countries are using our guidelines to implement such a policy. the social, political and economic empowerments of all these initiatives are evident for all to marvel at the power of efficient and accountable government. as your president with a ceo mandate, you can always access my jamaapoa blog and be up-to-date with various initiatives i am spearheading.
lastly, we at ppp coalition government accept the request by the hata tuzee tuko party (http) to send a representation to the coalition advisory committee. we continue to respect the opinions and views of our opposition colleagues at tuna kabila kalikali (tkk) party. however, we are not ready to incorporate their views in our decision making. We hope they never get to see the seat of power in this country again.
wananchi watukufu, as we commemorate this year’s madaraka day let us honour those who fought for our independence by not re-colonizing ourselves, fostering unity in diversity, responsibly governing ourselves and realising that the sky is not the limit. i love my beloved country, KENYA.
na hiyo, ni maendeleo…
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3 comments:
You are having a wonderful day dream. But then, without dreams, we cannot achieve anything.
Happy Madaraka day kool dude!!!
thanks uaridi, day dreams at times keep us going. they allow me to realise there is an endless universe of possibilities so i am not imprisoned by present hiccups. they do come true once in a while.
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