Kenyan
President Uhuru Kenyatta’s New Year Message
Fellow
Kenyans, Friends
of Kenya,
I am pleased to send you this
goodwill message and New Year Greetings.
We thank God for the year ending.
It was the year in which we put
our detractors to shame by holding a peaceful and successful election, a year
in which we ushered in devolution, and a year in which we celebrated the golden
jubilee of our independence. We had tough challenges along the
way, but we had the resolve to tackle them in order to deliver improved lives
to our people as outlined in our Jubilee manifesto.
We are firmly on track.
We look to 2014 with great
enthusiasm and optimism.
At Jamhuri Day I committed to
national unity as one of my driving objectives, and so in 2014 my
Administration will pursue a theme of “Reconciliation and Unity towards Inclusive
Growth”.
Unity is important for us as a
nation. Coming out of the Christmas period, it details the message, “Love your
neighbour as you love yourself” and “Do unto others what you would have them do
unto you.”
Fellow Kenyans, Friends of Kenya,
Last year, my Administration
launched a number of projects that form the plank of the Jubilee manifesto.
Free maternity services have
moved our country closer to achieving Millennium
Development Goal Number 5 on improving maternal health and eased the pain
of childbirth for many mothers.
It has also greatly improved our
monitoring of HIV prevalence.
Our laptops programmes for
primary entry children will begin in earnest in the coming weeks.
Thousands of jobs will come on
stream as the construction of the standard gauge railway gets underway in
earnest from Mombasa to Nairobi.
Similarly, more jobs are on the
way as our programme to irrigate one million acres of land becomes a reality,
starting in Tana River and Kilifi Counties.
In 2014, the Jubilee manifesto
will come alive.
Billions of shillings of
investment in our energy sector will also start pouring in this year, raising
the ante on our plan to add 5,000 megawatts of electricity on the national grid
in the next 36 months, and to lower electricity prices by at least 50 per cent
in that period.
Fellow Kenyans, Friends of Kenya,
The Jubilee Coalition is
committed to inclusive growth and improving the lives of all our people.
Whatever it takes to do so—be it
by legislation or policy that transforms our political, economic or social
structures to accelerate growth—we shall do so.
Access to education, clean water,
health services—these are imperatives that our people should and must have
access to.
As an Administration, our primary
responsibility is security of our people and their property.
In the last quarter of 2013 we launched
two major policing initiatives—one in which the communities are deeply
involved, “Nyumba Kumi”, and the second, a technology-driven strategic
operation, including the use of CCTV cameras in the streets of our major cities
and towns, and broadband connectivity at border points.
We have invested heavily in
surveillance equipment and in vehicles, which we believe will help drive crime
away from our shores.
That said, let me remind all of
us that security is a shared responsibility.
All of us have a role to play in
ensuring the safety for all Kenyans. All of us must commit to the rule of law.
Fellow Kenyans, Friends of Kenya,
The New Year should see further
progress in our agenda to ensure free movement of persons in eastern Africa and
greater integration on the continent.
We will continue to work with our
neighbours in East Africa to drive that agenda.
We will also work to help each
other, as east African countries, to resolve security challenges that may crop
up from time to time.
As you are already aware, we as a
region are hard at work resolving the crisis in South Sudan.
With our partners in IGAD, we
have appointed special envoys to seek a negotiated settlement of the crisis and
to protect the fledgling democracy in Africa’s youngest nation.
It is a task that we are
committed to seeing to complete fruition.
We salute our men and women in
uniform, as well as all others, involved in evacuating Kenyans from South Sudan
and delivering emergency supplies.
We also salute our men and women
in uniform involved in peace-keeping and peace-enforcement around the world,
especially those with AMISOM in Somalia.
We are safe if our region is
safe.
Fellow Kenyans, Friends of Kenya,
I call on all Kenyans to play
their part in making our shared dream of growth and prosperity a reality.
All of us should partner with the
National and County Governments as we seek to implement the various Vision 2030
projects and programmes. I, for one, believe we can achieve the goals of Vision 2030 a decade earlier.
As we move forward, I urge all
leaders to pursue a brand of politics that helps to improve the welfare of the
citizens of this country.
We must avoid parochial and
divisive politics, and embrace a national culture that will define us
positively in the next 50 years and beyond.
Our national agenda must be
progressive, issue-based and people-centred.
On the part of the Government, we
will encourage mature and responsible engagement among us leaders; among the
three arms of the Government and between Business and Government.
I wish you all a happy and
blessed 2014.
I thank you all.
God bless Kenya and God bless the
people of this great republic. |
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