To the great man, our heavenly father, in the name of Jesus Christ, we thank you this good morning for your love. We thank you for your goodness and your kindness which are eternal. We thank you for this day that you set aside for us to have met in this place. We thank you even because of this government that you gave us at a time like this and saw fit for us to be leaders at a time like this. We thank you because of all these citizens who have believed in the work that is being done in this country of Kenya. We thank you for giving them even the love of loving their country and us as well as loving the work that we do in the government. We entrust this day into your hands so that God will go with us and guide us in all the things that we will do. All the words that will be spoken in this session, all the things that will be done and continued by God until the end of this year and until next year as we head towards the elections. May Allah enable us to fulfill the promises we have made to our people so that as Allah increases our trust in you, we may trust in you knowing that all things are possible because of your name. We entrust ourselves into your hands. Begin with us, let us continue with you, and when we reach the end, we will thank your name, for we have prayed and believed in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. Amen.
Amen. I respectfully ask that we may sit down with Excellency Dr. William Samoei Ruto, President, Commander-in-Chief of the Kenya Defence Forces, also the party leader for UDA, the Chair UDA, Governor for Embu, Cecily Mbarire, the Governor Nyeri County, Mutahi Kahiga, Majority Leader, Kimani Ichung'wah, Secretary General UDA Party, Hassan Omar. There are many MPs here who have come to this place and are also UDA members. Your Excellency, to start us off on this program, kindly allow me to invite the Member of Parliament for Mathira West, Wambugu Wamathai, to come so that he can also introduce the leaders and tell us who has arrived. Welcome, sir.
Nyeri hoye! Nyeri hoye hoye! This is Nyeri! Ile Nyeri! Ile Nyeri! William Samoei Ruto's Nyeri! This is William Samoei Ruto's Nyeri! Let me see Nyeri, Nyeri, Nyeri, Nyeri, Nyeri! Maligwa, maligwa, maligwa! Narutanaut! People of Nyeri, let's go back, let's not go back! People of Nyeri, let's go back, let's go back! Marawa, marauthura! People of Nyeri, are you ready? Leaders of Nyeri, are you ready? Honorable President, these are the leaders who have been elected here in Nyeri, 20 leaders for each polling center here in Nyeri County. And Mr. President, this is your grassroots army in Nyeri, and we have come here to declare that as the leaders of Nyeri, we stand with you today, tomorrow, next week, next month, next year, 2027. As the people of Nyeri, we have come here to declare that Nyeri is behind President William Samoei Ruto. People of Nyeri, should we continue or not? People of Nyeri, let's continue or not. Nyeri leaders, let's continue or not. Your party is UDA. People of Nyeri, your party is UDA. Mr. President, you came here to Nyeri and built a road for us, and the road here in Nyeri is still going strong. We want to tell those who are criticizing that no work is going on in Nyeri. You, honorable president, are building the Nyeri road and it is ongoing. You are putting the steam in these people, the work is ongoing. I'm keeping these people water, the work is ongoing. The market for vegetables continues to grow. Is the market being built or not? Is the vegetable market being built or not? It is built. Has affordable housing been built or not? It is built. The people of Nyeri, let us continue or not because of that work, your excellency, we the people of Nyeri have decided that if you turn a corner, we will turn a corner with you. If you turn a corner, we turn a corner with you. And we, the people of Nyeri, are not to be trifled with. And these people of Nyeri are the ones who decide. These are the suspects. These are the ones who will decide the president who will be sworn in in 2027, which is William Samoei Ruto. These people will decide for themselves. Or will you be decided by the people and the people of Nyeri? Will someone decide for them? You decide. You decide. You decide. And you have already decided, the people of Nyeri, you have already decided, the people of Nyeri, you have already decided, you have decided, it is William Samoei Ruto. It is planned, we are the ones who decide here in Nyeri. We are the ones who decide here in Nyeri. And we have come to announce to the entire nation that they should also organize themselves. We, the people of Nyeri, are organized. The people of Nyeri, have we organized ourselves? Have we not organized ourselves? The people of Nyeri have organized themselves. We have not organized ourselves to say that our party is UDA or what on earth? Let me see the people of Kieni. Let me see the people of Kieni again, Kieni, Kieni, people of Kieni. Let me see our leaders. Tetu leaders, let me see the Othaya leaders, the leaders of Othaya. Oh, let me see Mukurweini. Leaders of Mukurweini. Let me see Nyeri Town. Nyeri Town leaders, let's come home to Mathira. Let me see Mathira. The people of Nyeri have decided that I should return to Mathira again. Let me go back to Mathira. Let me see the leaders of Mathira. Mathira, Mathira. What do you say, Mathira? What do you say? What do you say? What do you say, Othaya? What do you say? What do you say about Nyeri Town? How do you say Othaya? Mr. President, you have built a friendship with the people of Nyeri for 20 years. We remain friends with you because you have built a friendship with us for 20 years. Your friendship with the people of Nyeri is strong and no one or nothing can separate you from the people of Nyeri. Your friendship with the people of Nyeri is strong. Have we agreed, people of Nyeri? Is our friendship with the honorable president strong? Are you stable? Can we be separated from someone? No. We can be separated from the president, we have decided. Let me take this opportunity, Mr. President, to introduce you to those leaders, members of parliament, who have supported you, and there are a large majority who have decided that their party is UDA. Hey leaders, members of parliament, please let us stand up, let us come here in front, stand up. Members of parliament, please let us see. This is the Honorable Faith Gitau, Mother of Nyandarua County. Give her a round of applause. He is called Mr. Kagombe. Mr. Gatundu South. Give a round of applause. This is the Honorable Kihungi MP, Kangema, Murang'a. Give her a round of applause. Her name is Mary Mainge, the MP for Mwea, Kirinyaga. Give her a round of applause. Her name is Veronica Maina from Murang'a. Give her a round of applause. This one is called George Gachagua, the good one from Ol Joro Orok, Nyandarua. Give him a round of applause. His name is George Koimburi. MP Tharaka, there. Fire is not Fire. Faya is not Fire. This MP is called the Honorable Kiarie, MP for Mathioya. Give her a round of applause. This is our mountain mother, she is called Rahab, the mother of Kiambu County. Give me a round of applause. This is the Honorable Gachimu MP, MP for Gichugu, Kirinyaga County. Give me a round of applause. This is the Honorable Dorothy Muthoni, nominated MP from Meru. Give me a round of applause. This is Betty Adera, the mother of Murang'a County and the darling of my soul. This is the Honorable Wambugu Karanja from Laikipia. If I pay for West, give him a round of applause. This is our county chief, the Honorable Kiremi, the county chief of Meru County. Give him a round of applause. He's called Wamudhende. Let me see Bwe. MP, MP, Mbeere North, Muthoni, give him a round of applause. This one is called Chieni. Where is the round of applause for Chieni? Our MP from Kieni, give him a round of applause. This one is called Mwangi, an old MP from Kazi, an old man from Othaya, a respected Mwangi, a tall man. Mwangi, our MP for Nyeri Town, give him a round of applause. Our county mother, county mother, Rahab, grassroots development, give him a round of applause. And he is called Shege. Thank you. Senate, where is the applause of the senate? Our leader of Nyeri, Governor, Senate of Home of Mathira. Where is the applause of PS? Our PS of Energy, Alex Wambugu, give him applause. Our PS, our PS of Agenda from Nyeri, give him this applause. Let me give the county mother to speak for two minutes.
Your Excellency, very close Nyeri County, I want to tell you thank you very much because all these people you see here are our leaders of the polling station. When we had the elections, these people are the ones who elected you. William, Excellency, these people, you know you have been told the people of Nyeri do not like you. Today you have seen it with your own eyes, the people of Nyeri love you. What had happened was because all those other people had gone to State House, they were just slandering. The work is going on or not going on? The work is going on. Let us give our president a chance and I know when 2027 comes it will be Ruto inside out. Ruto is F not faya. Ruto is either not or. Thank you very much.
Our Senator, the Senator of Home of Mathira. Excellency, today I will be few in words because this is the day of speaking with grassroots leaders. But that, Excellency, I just want to thank you for two things. The first we had with you last week when we were blocked from different projects, the market, the quarantine, the Marwa road. Your Excellency, the journey to Singapore, the people of Nyeri and the leaders of Nyeri have said that we should go to Singapore together. The last one, your Excellency sir, these leaders, these grassroots leaders, this is your grassroots, those who will support you in the grassroots and those who will stand with you, those who have decided that they want development not politics. Thank you very much. Where is the applause for our senator? What do you say, Nyeri? What do you say, Nyeri? We have our MCA. MCAs please stand up, you will be given a chance later by the boss to greet all MCAs. We are with all MCAs from Central Kenya, where is the applause from all MCAs? There are so many. Where is the MC's applause? Your names will be mentioned later. And now I see, I see the governor has decided. I see Governor Kahiga has decided. Where is the applause of the UDA governor, Governor Mutahi Kahiga? Thank you very much. Wambugu, Wambugu should be applauded, applaud. Your Excellency, our president of UDA, our president, I want to take this opportunity to start by welcoming you here. This is home. This is for you. And here we are close, we have welcomed you. After saying that, thank you. Thank you, Nyeri. Thank you. After saying that, and okay, okay, okay, okay, I said I am from this forum. Okay, okay, calm down. We have guests here and I would first like to introduce the guests of the governor and deputy governor level who have arrived. We are together, so if I mention one, I will welcome them here. I want to hear the roar of the people of Nyeri welcoming the guests. Let's start, let's start, let's start, let's start with the deputy governor of Meru. This is the deputy governor of Meru. This is the deputy governor of Meru, her name is Honorable Linda. I want to give him a chance to greet them. May he be praised. I know today is Tutam's day, what day is it today? Tut. What do you say, Nyeri? Braid. Even in Meru we say our dignitaries are here, our governor is here, we are UDA members and we have held President Ruto in Meru. I've heard you say you'll be turning a corner and casting your vote by ballot. Now I want you to give me a challenge. I want Meru and I to compete to see who will get the most votes than the others. And I want to tell you today, Meru, before you turn a corner, we will be on the ballot. Is it true or not? Really, really. You say it's a joke. You will conquer Meru, you will succeed. Let's wait and see who between Meru and Nyeri will have the most votes. I want to assure you, Your Excellency, before the people of Nyeri turn a corner, Meru, we will be even deeper inside. But I know you people of Nyeri are very intelligent. I see that you want to come in here and talk. Do you want us to come in here, Tutam? He is Tutam. I know Gavor will talk to himself. Let me tell you, the people of Meru, we are complete and we have installed our president and our young, talented professor. We are with him, bump to bump, we have come to represent our young man, Kindiki. We are with him and we will be able to move forward together. How old is President Ruto? And how many are there in Kindiki? Thank you very much and may the Lord bless you. Let's applaud. I would like to invite the deputy governor from Kirinyaga, my esteemed friend Gedha, to come and greet me. Are we together? Please welcome him. Welcome, Mr. Gedha. What do you people of Nyeri say? What do you say? Your Excellency, even if we in Kirinyaga are added by our governor Anne Waiguru, we say it is a two-term. Your Excellency, we have not left the Kirinyaga ground yet. It is strong and we know, Mr. President, we know that you will come soon to visit us. Now, Kirinyaga, we know that the government has done something. Mr. President, there are things you promised our governor and he has told us to wait there because he will fulfill all the promises you told us and we are there. Let's see again. Okay, I don't hear the people who are angry. What are you saying? What are you saying? We have our Kirinyaga team. What are you saying? What do you say? Thank you very much, Excellency, we are there and have fully supported you, Kirinyaga. Thank you. Thank you very much. Let's give the deputy governor a round of applause. Thank you very much. Now we have Deputy Governor Stephen Munania from Murang'a, the letter carrier. Arambe saves the youth. My name is Deputy Governor Stephen Munania from Murang'a and I have come here to support the youth from Murang'a and tell them that we are strong. Let me say just one thing. A country is not built by arguing with the poor. It is built on a forward-looking plan to build our country. Harambe, I bring an apology from my governor, Governor Kang'ata, and we say Murang'a is strong. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Also before I call the governor, ah Mtuma from Meru, I also want to offer my apology to Governor Waiguru, Anne Waiguru, who has also sent a message. He could not come but he is with us and we are together until then. You know the governor of Meru, his name is Governor Isaac Mutuma. Let us welcome the Lord Jesus, may he be praised. Your Excellency, first receive the greetings of the people of Meru and the greetings of the people of Meru here in Nyeri. We have come to confirm whether the people of Nyeri are as we hear. People of Nyeri, how are you? Are you alone or something else? You are just waiting for your call. Your Excellency, Meru, we say it is two-term. We are with you. We have seen the progress of your government and these leaders do not be stopped. That the people of the mountain are these, those who you are told that they are not supporting the government, I do not know who they are because those who are fighting for the government, have held the government, are these today and they say President Ruto is two-term or how are the roads in Kenya two-term? Here in Nyeri, the water in Nyeri is two-term, the education for our children is two-term, the health of the people of Kenya is two-term. Even in Meru we say the same. Your Excellency, near Meru, I was waiting for you in Meru today. I was told you were here in Nyeri. I said let me come. Thank you, Your Excellency. Thank you. Thank you very much. The other governor who remains is my elder brother, the chairman of the UDA party. Do you know which party the governor belongs to? Which party do I belong to? UDA. Who is my president? It's William Samoei. And I am working for that government. And I would like to thank the people of Nyeri and all the leaders who were elected. So you know I am with you on this journey. Are we together? Let's continue to watch over the government that belongs to the UDA. The government that we elected ourselves should work with us and we should move forward. That's fine. That's fine. President, the remaining matters are yours. If you complete them, I will just say, 'Tutam.' So now I want you to prepare yourselves so that we can give the real applause. Oh, we have Majority Leader Kimani Ichung'wah, let's applaud him.
Thank you very much, Governor Kahiga. Your Excellency, the President and our party leader, and thank you very much. And he told us yesterday that he was elected by the UDA party, he is our governor and the leader of the UDA party. I am not, your Excellency, I will not be many and we are happy. I want to say that I am bringing the apologies of Her Excellency Governor Susan Kihika from Nakuru. Thank you. This is the apology from Governor Susan Kihika from Nakuru. Your Excellency, our party leader, I am happy to come and join my brothers-in-law from Nyeri and as leaders who have been elected from the grassroots. And you remember when we entered the 2022 campaign to ask for votes, we said that our UDA party's position would be that bottom-up leadership. And your Excellency, the bottom-up things that we told the people, you promised us because you took over a country where the economy had deteriorated, almost causing our country's economy to collapse. And we had many problems, you told us you would start building a solid foundation for our country's economy from the bottom up through your bottom-up economic transformation agenda. Your Excellency has been able to control the economy of our country for two and a half years and it has become clear that the country of Kenya and its economy will be able to continue and now you have put us on the path to moving from developing countries or third world economies to a first world nation with a first world economy. Your Excellency, as President, you promised us that through the bottom-up Economic Transformation Agenda, you will control our economy. With the grace of God and the support of these citizens and leaders like those of Nyeri, you have been able to do so, and our country has been able to control its economy, and we have seen the economy recover and we have been able to achieve developmental milestones. But we also said while campaigning, Your Excellency, that if we control the economy, we must guarantee the development that can begin through a political plan that will also be a bottom-up governance structure. And I am grateful because today we are meeting here with 20 leaders from every polling station in the entire county of Nyeri following the elections that we held on the 10th of last week, Saturday. And let me say congratulations on being elected as leaders of our UDA party. You are now the guarantors of the bottom-up economic transformation agenda, ensuring that the solid economic foundation we have laid will be able to continue and be driven from the grassroots down to the polling station, continuing all the way to the national level. Your Excellency, I want to say that these our grassroots leaders, these are the guarantor of a democratic structure within our political party UDA that is now a national movement. That this guarantor of our democracy, these are also the guarantor of our bottom-up economic transformation agenda to ensure your Excellency that the development that we continue to underwrite as a party and the Kenya Kwanza coalition together with our partners and broad-based government is guaranteed to move our nation from being a third world economy to a first world nation. And you told us, President, that we will be able and it will be possible to form a political party, a party that is national, a party that will unite all Kenyans regardless of their ethnic background or origin. We are grateful because we have been able to see following the elections in all our counties of the UDA party that it is possible for us to have a political party. I am happy, President, because we, as citizens of the Mount Kenya region, our party is the United Party, but what is the Mount Kenya Party? UDA. What is the Mount Kenya Party? UDA. And it is not the only mountain party, it is our national party. Because it is your Excellency that we not only guarantee and to underwrite the development that we are rolling out across our nation, that it is only also through a national political movement like this one that we will be able to nurture and mentor future leadership of our country to ensure that the development we are putting in place towards a first world nation will not stall midstream because of poor political governance. It is possible that we could start a discussion about moving forward to become a First World Nation, but we might stop or get stuck in the process due to the lack of strong leadership. And the honorable President, you have led us as the leader of our UDA party to show us that we can develop leaders who will understand the development agenda that we are implementing and develop them from here in the grassroots. And those leaders are the ones we are meeting here in Nyeri today who were elected in Nyeri. I congratulate them and promise them. I know and I believe that next year we will have elections on the 10th of August. From among these leaders who have been elected at the grassroots level, we will produce new members of parliament who will be elected as members of parliament. I am sure that tomorrow's MCA, including these MCA who are in office at this hour here for these leaders, we also have MCA who are sitting here at the national level, even the president who will return after your second term right there in 2032. Mr. President, I am looking at it, he may be here among those 20 leaders who have been elected at the grassroots level. In conclusion, Mr. President, I congratulate you and thank you because we the people of Mount Kenya decided unanimously that we will vote for you in 2022 and we are the ones who voted for you of our own free will. And focusing on development issues, Mr. President, the government you formed and we are our government, we as the people of Mount Kenya and you have done us honor with your cabinet, you have given us seven ministers and you have also given us a majority leader in the national parliament, you have given us a CDF commander of the Defense Forces from here in Nyeri and from here in Mount Kenya you have given us an inspector general of police from here in Nyeri and here in Mount Kenya you have given us 16 principal secretaries for this government of yours. This president is our government and we will move forward with him to 2027. We also thank you, Honorable President, because the things you promised us for development in the National Assembly are what we are honoring or making the budget for the country of Kenya. I can say without any fear of contradiction that over 10% of the national development budget resides or is allocated to the Mount Kenya region and our counties. More than 10 percent of the development budget, government funds that are collected for development, more than 10% of that money is here. Therefore, if we tell you, President, we will say that, Honorable Governor Mutahi Kahiga is being told by the people of Nyeri to speak and he says that he is first in the forum and I know you did not understand him. This governor of ours told us that he is finishing his two terms as governor and wants to grow for another two terms in the UDA government. He should go to the forum for 2027 development, principal secretary, Kenya second. Honorable President, I just said that we want to unite with other Kenyans in a national party so that we can drive our country forward. We have rejected the politics of hate and the politics of dividing people based on where they come from. For all of this, Honorable President, I would like to take this unique opportunity. You also know that this is not a government matter, our UDA party leader is William Samoei Ruto, he is a man from Mount Kenya, Sagana, Mathira Constituency, Mathira, while our deputy party leader is also our son from Mount Kenya, Professor Abraham Kindiki. Kindiki is a good man, not a good man, the national chairperson of our Mount Kenya party and the national party, the government party, the people's party of Mount Kenya. I want to respectfully welcome the national chairperson of the UDA party, our governor, our son, the mother of power who has brought us the best of the best, Governor Cecily Mbarire, National Chairperson of the UDA party. Welcome.
Thank you very much, Majority Leader. Our party leader, His Excellency President William Samoei Ruto. All the leaders here present led by the Governor of Nyeri, Governor Kahiga, all the governors and deputy governors, members of parliament, our Secretary General of the UDA party, and you UDA leaders in Nyeri County. Hello. Praise the Lord. Your Excellency. Today is a very big day here in Nyeri. Today we have come here so you can have the opportunity to inaugurate the UDA leaders who were elected last Saturday here in Nyeri County. We have leaders in every polling station in Nyeri. These leaders did not elect themselves. They were elected by the citizens as members of the UDA. Give yourselves a round of applause, these leaders. Your Excellency, we have men, women, youth and we have also taken care of special interest with women and I want to say throughout the election we have achieved 35.6% gender representation in the leadership of UDA at the grassroots level. So, to you ladies who have been elected, I want to thank you first of all for coming out and saying you want to be UDA grassroots leaders and I'm very proud of you ladies for coming out and seeking elective positions in the leadership of the UDA party. We are as strong as your mother, we also have young people and we got about 40% of young people elected in different categories in the UDA grassroots elections. Are you young? Let me see the young people who were elected here, hands up, young people, thank you very much. We also have the elderly and then we also have persons living with disability who have also been elected at the grassroots level. Your Excellency, this is your army. These are the people who will hold you at the grassroots level. These people are very important because from today these are the ambassadors of William Samoei Ruto's government. If you are in a place from today once the president launches this leadership and gives you the powers to go and do the things he will tell you you should do. I want you to stand up when you are at a funeral, when you are at a church, when you are at any function and say I am a UDA leader, and I, speaking here, have been sent by President William Ruto. Don't stand up and speak like William Ruto himself. You are a powerful people for funerals. You stand first and begin by exchanging greetings from William Samoei Ruto. The next thing you do is say what work William Ruto's government has done in the place you came from. So we will also share with you all the government programs for this entire area, your county of Nyeri, you will stand up and speak like the president himself and you will be respected and when the president comes to the county, if he comes to Othaya, the first people to receive the president will be you, the elected leaders of you who were elected there and because we are going to go up to the constituency level and there will be a chairman, the chairman himself, your Excellency, we are requesting that if you come there, you give them a chance to even talk to you. If you are an old man wearing a yellow UDA tie, if you are a mother wearing a cape or a UDA t-shirt, we must start showing people that we are proud of this party and tell them where they are going, we are UDA people, whether they die or recover. He came there yesterday, we shocked us there in front, we told him here, there are two big boys, they are the ones who let's support President Samuel Ruto without any fear. And four types of cars, if you are with President William Ruto, you have power and that is why you are here to be given that power, go back to the grassroots to do President William Ruto's work. We have heard from each other. We have heard from each other. How many here are ready to do that work? Excellency, more ready to do the work of UDA in the grassroots. Hold these leaders, the leaders of Nyeri, who have stood with the government without fear. Hold on to the Senator for Mathira. The Senator of Mathira is not bad. Hold on mother county, Rahab is not wrong. Hold on my young brother, this one came there in front and we did a very good job, Mr. Mathira is a good guy, not a good guy. There is another gentleman here who speaks without fear, Mr. Othaya is a good guy, not a good guy. We are with the gentleman in Kieni, fire, fire, fire. We are with the gentleman in Nyeri Town, the one who is really stupid is F, not fire. Hold on to all your leaders and also hold on to the MCAs who are standing with the government. And in 2027 there are people we will make sure he is defeated by ensuring that all the leaders we will elect from the president to the MCA Nyeri are all UDA and Kogoroku. May God bless them very much. We are happy. I bring many greetings from Embu, we are in Ngangare. We say we are only here and we are not afraid. Now, my brother, Kahiga, my brother, Kahiga, governor, just a little bit. You will not be able to hear the Kiembu. Oh, we are going to the KMC headquarters. Governor and you are my brother. Thank you very much. When I was Governor, you held my hand and showed me the whole road. So that I can get to the Kiembu like you. Now, all your people, let's look, let's look on this other side. They all said they are only here. Let's tell them well, where are you? I am on the forum first and what is your forum about President Ruto? What is President Ruto's? Now he has heard what the people are saying, we have said to President William Ruto, let's just see President William Ruto's time, that's where we are now, our party leader. But before I call you, please allow me to introduce the party's Secretary General, Senator Hassan Omar, come here and do this, please, Senator Hassan Omar, we are with him. We have an executive director of the party named Bore. We are with all the party directors who are here, please stand up, you are here, we are all with the chairman of the National Elections Board, Mr. Anthony Mwaora. SG, just say hello in your little Mombasa Swahili.
