Let’s commit to tackle challenges with bold resolve

President Uhuru Kenyatta’s recent address to the nation from Mombasa outlined his administration’s top priorities for 2020 and beyond. Most of the issues he highlighted indicated a continuation of discourse we have seen in the past year. He discussed the BBI, the war on corruption, succession politics and making the government more efficient. There were useful clarifications regarding where his priorities lay and what we can expect. 

The clarity of his address allows us to hold him accountable, and accountability is one of the most important items on the BBI agenda. The most significant takeaway that I got from the speech was that Kenyatta wants to guide the public discourse so that growing our economy becomes the number one public priority over politics.