I love when you walk alone with me. Woah woah be that our love isn't true but to prove that it's true I would die for you and that's why you're you are my love. Jubilee jambo. Santana sant sana sant sana jubilee. Oh yeah. Jubilee. Oh yeah. Kenya. Oh yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Asanti sana. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. What do you believe in when Zango jambo jambo?
Social media. Secretary General Leonote Jubilee to me to misqued or misrepresented. So therefore, party members and my fellow Kenyans, today marks almost 3 years. As the secretary general has just informed us, since we last gathered here at this very same venue and held our last national delegates conference. This is no, this is through no fault of my own, but as a direct result of devious machinations by those who wanted to falsely and forcefully take over this party. As we meet today, I wish to take this very early opportunity to thank all those loyal party members, the many lawyers and Kenyans of goodwill who have ensured that once again we are able to meet and restart our journey forward again. Politics as we have seen is about many things but one thing that cannot be overridden is that politics is first and foremost about the collective will of the people exercised either by members of the party like we are here today or by the citizens of a democratic nation through the ballot box. So it is my hope that from today we shall see the end of machinations and the start of a democratic process because it is the people who will decide. Members decision. So three years ago at the end of a hotly contested general election and amid an atmosphere of hostility not only to our party but to myself, members of my family and members of my administration. But despite that, I stood at this same venue, ready to begin a process that should have been normal in any mature democracy. A process of rejuvenating our party and infusing it with new leadership. A new crop of leaders inspired by a new generation who would craft our party's future as well as our shared vision for our country. After having handed over the reins of state to a new administration in a peaceful and orderly manner as you all witnessed. I expected the same for our party. Unfortunately, this was not to be for reasons as explained. Ladies and gentlemen, I have been in active politics for the greater part of my life, 40 years plus. I have seen its good. I have seen its bad and even its ugly. But at every juncture, I have always tried to do my best in the spirit of service to my party, but most importantly, service to this country that I love. I have both lost elections and won elections, taking each in my stride. Learning that in politics you can never be led by bitterness, anger or hate. That only deviates you from your mission and vision. I have had my fair share of successes as well as challenges. But the truth of the matter is that none of this would have been possible if I myself at an early age had not been given the opportunity and support to take up various leadership positions in our country. As a party under my administration under my leadership and courtesy of the Kenyan electorate. We have been a governing party for approximately 10 out of our country's 60 odd years of life since independence. Looking back, there are things we can be proud of and admittedly there are things that we could also have done better. As a party, we can say with pride that it was our administration that oversaw the implementation of a new constitutional order and we did so within the stipulated timelines. As a party, we can say that we left behind a more connected country than we founded. We doubled the number of tarmac roads, increased electricity connections from 35% of our population that we found to over 70%. We began the process of modifying dilapidated colonial infrastructure with the introduction of the SGR, the development of Lamu port, the revival of Kisumu port amongst many others. In health. Our Linda Mama, the removal of maternity fees in our health centers gave and saw great improvement in maternal health and improved child mortality rates. Our management equipment services. So medical equipment such as dialysis machines, scanning machines, laboratories and other equipment become available to distant corners of our country with counties like Mandera being able to carry out cesarean sections and other such operations for the first time since independence. In education, we restored the sanctity of our exams. We maintained the free primary education that we inherited from President Kibaki. We expanded the free day secondary education and reduced the burden of healthcare for our parents with the introduction of EduAfya for our students. In security. Despite initial challenges, we invested heavily in our infrastructure, security infrastructure. We restructured our security organs and deepened an inter-agency approach. Thereby ensuring that our security agencies were better able to handle both domestic and external threats. This machine that we built, however, was not to be used and designed to face its own citizens and it is not supposed to have been a source of fear and conflict with our citizens. We worked as a party to bring greater cohesion in our social construct to reduce ethnic tensions and address both social and regional inequalities. This noble effort unfortunately was used against us in the last campaigns. It being called an attempt to erode democracy. I wonder what they call theirs today. I can go on and on but that is for another time. Equally, my friends, it is true to say that we also face challenges. Key among them being our war against corruption in government that was less than successful. Our intergovernmental relations also left much to be desired. A case in point being the uneasy relationship with the judiciary over the appointment of judges. To my mind, the framers of our constitution intended that the different arms of government will be simultaneously independent but always interdependent for the common good of our people and nation. It was never our intention to deny them their independence or to interfere with their operations. All of this and more. But as I have said, this is a story for another day. So therefore, now we need to ask ourselves, where are we and where do we want to go? Ladies and gentlemen, over the years as a leader, some things have become apparent and clear to me that you succeed by looking at past successes, injecting new ideas, and improving upon them. And you fail by ignoring past mistakes and therefore falling folly of repeating the same. This while always having an open mind and a listening ear even to those you disagree with and especially to the voices of our younger generations. For in a world that is ever evolving as fast as it is, it is with such insights that become crucial for true transformation to occur. A balance of all this is what makes a stable and pragmatic nation. One that is filled with hope and not despair. A nation at peace with itself and one that is able to transition with ease from one generation to the next. In the last general election, I endeavored to pass this message. Unfortunately, it fell on deaf ears and was lost in the noise of insults, character assassinations, myths and stories of dynasties and hustlers and so on. Yeah. Today, many of the gains we had in the past have been eroded. Linda Mama and others, replaced by new, untried, untested schemes. And while we wait for these experiments to work, Kenyans suffer and our progress is stalled. As we continue to dwell in rhetoric rather than in progress, we repeat the mistakes of the past. Indeed, today some of the truths we spoke of yesterday have become the reality check of today, while some of the myths and falsehoods have become the nightmare that many are living. So again, why are we here today? Ladies and gentlemen, the past can inform us but the present can shape the future. So the first thing as our secretary general has told us our first mission today was to pass amendments to our party's constitution. Amendments to ensure that the machinations of the past shall never be used again to hold back our progress. Second is to seek your approval to put in place measures to rejuvenate our party and set in motion a process of injecting new blood into our party structures and hierarchy. Men and women, especially the young. And when I say the young, I am not just saying young in body. We also want young in mind and spirit. Men and women of integrity who can be trusted with our future. Men and women who have the courage to fight for what is right and just. Men and women with the patience to listen to those whom they wish to lead. Men and women with compassion for their fellow citizens. Men and women of wisdom, not pride. Men and women who know as human beings they can make mistakes but stand ready to correct them. I have watched quietly the ongoings of the recent past and greatly admired the tribulous, steadfast courage of today's generations. A generation that knows what it wants and is determined to achieve it whatever the cost. It is my hope today that as some of us give way that those same young ones with the same energy, conviction and patriotism that we saw in the streets, you will be able to use them to transform the structures of our party and ultimately you yourselves enter the corridors of power and high office and take charge of your own destiny. You know what you want. It is not for me to tell you. You know what you want. You have the energy to get it. And time is on your side. In the next few weeks, we shall be rolling out our recruitment strategy across the country, across generations and gender. This in conjunction with other activities aimed at rejuvenating and reinvigorating our party at grassroots level. Our doors are open for all well-meaning Kenyans. And it is my intention to oversee a smooth and transparent process where it shall be the will of the party membership that shall prevail. So ladies and gentlemen, as I conclude, I wish for the sake of clarity to remind Kenyans that the Jubilee Party, as you well know, and for reasons that have just been given, has been largely silent for the last three years. For those reasons, when we last convened a national delegates conference prior to the 2022 general elections, the party resolved to become a member of the Azimio La Umoja coalition because I, as party leader then and now, was convinced that the coalition and its members shared a common vision for our country. In the years since then, however, the Azimio coalition membership has undergone changes. I don't need to elaborate. However, notwithstanding these changes and as we speak today, the party as per the decision of our organs remains a member of what is left of this coalition. And any decision on whether to reinvest in it or leave it will be a decision for the party's new leadership to take when the time comes. I say that like any other political party, we shall be preparing for the next general election and doing so in earnest and it remains our firm intention to field the best possible candidates for all elective positions. We shall either do this on our own or we shall do this in concert with like-minded political movements. It is therefore my hope that a newly energized Jubilee party will achieve two immediate outcomes. Firstly, to provide a suitable platform for visionary aspiring leaders to offer themselves up in the service of their nation. And secondly, for the citizens of Kenya to be presented with a vibrant set of options from which to elect leaders of their choice in accordance with the democratic ideals of our constitutional order and what our national constitution states. On point. Kenya water. Kenya Kenya. Primary secondary. Watch two international parties. Hakuna Jubilee. That is the only thing that is important. Single motherification. Anyway, aana. Um, yeah. Kenya process. Ambazo transparency in all the processes that we shall follow. Recruitment drive. More than I need. Yo, Kenya. Thank you very much. A new song for peace and dance. Let the people rejoice and dance. I heard they finally stop the fight. Let the people rejoice and dance. But they were
