Choose leadership over politics, Uhuru urges Kenyans in new year message

President Uhuru Kenyatta has asked Kenyans to safeguard gains made in the year 2021 despite the challenges encountered.

In his New Year message, the president urged Kenyans to choose leadership over politics, a justice system and a bold path over a popular one.

“For starters, we must choose leadership over politics. Leadership is about vision while politics is about positions. Leadership is about the next generation, whereas politics is concerned merely with the next election. Indeed, our obsession with politics has only slowed down the realization of our potential as a people” he said in a live broadcast on New Year’s eve.

The President stressed the need to work together to make Kenya better, despite the challenges ahead.

“As we bid goodbye to 2021, we rejoice in the fact that 2022 gives us an opportunity to do things better. By offering us a reset, the New Year is one for course correction and building back better…As a nation, it is up to us to write our 2022 story page by page; ensuring that each day
we make Kenya better than it was the day before” he added.

Addressing the nation from State House Nairobi, the president highlighted the achievements his administration has made in the last nine years, citing the success achieved in bridging the deficits in infrastructure, access to affordable and affordable health care and in the security sector.

He also said his administration had vastly improved on the ease of doing business in the country. The President said in the new year the nation will move closer to the realization of universal health care coverage through the different programs implemented.

He said several state projects will be completed in the new year and the dividends felt by Kenyans.

On education the president noted that in the early part of 2022 the CBC infrastructure programme will deliver 10,000 classrooms across the country, securing a better learning environment for Kenya’s children.

He also cited the gains made in the fight against Covid 19, noting that the government targets to vaccinate at least 30 million Kenyans by end of next year.