 SCMPOD. To the people of Kenya, this is a momentous occasion for our country. Our politics and our elections have never failed to be a more emotive, engaging and dramatic. The most recent installment, however, showcase our most exemplary democratic performance. This day comes on the path of a peaceful election following an intense issue-based campaign in which major coalitions, made up of strong political parties, convinced their agenda and took it for examination by the people of Kenya. The dependent electoral and boundaries commission still added a transparent and credible election whose result faithfully reflects the democratic will of the people of Kenya. The certified party exercised their right to petition before the Supreme Court whose proceedings and determination not only gave comfort to the doubt but also restored faith in our electoral and judicial institutions. Many countries aspire to have moments like this and we as Kenyans should not take hours for granted. This is the third election under the constitution of Kenya 2010 and the second peaceful transition. We have had a robust conversation about this moment and what it demands of us and we have sought to answer the question whether this is a constitutional moment or an economic moment. In this process we have demonstrated the maturity of our democracy, the robustness of our institutions and the resilience of the Kenyan people. My competitors and I mobilized vigorously to offer the citizens of Kenya the most appealing agenda as well as the best room to achieve it. I remain calm in the conviction that all sides in the last election did their best to present a pathway to actualize the people's aspirations. The just concluded election was a choice between competing ideas towards the Kenya we want. Elections and democracy entail unifying competition not the busy rival. The performance of our security services, the performance of the IEBC and the judiciary was put to severe tests. These institutions live up to our expectations. We can only aspire to do better in future and I give my undertaking that my administration shall work to ensure that the power is raised even higher for the next general elections. A significant dividend of our electoral and democratic process is the tremendous achievement we've made in breaking the glass ceiling by enhancing the participation of women in the election. Seven women were elected as governors up from three in the last election. Twenty-nine women were elected as members of the National Assembly up from 23 in 2017. Seven women, deputy governor and three women senators were elected as well. It is very clear that this election had many winners. Five women, those who are actually elected. By far, the largest winners of this election is the people of Kenya. We have done well as a nation. We have lived the trade in an increasingly challenging environment where democracy is consistently on trial. We have come a long way in our nation's journey to freedom and going by our most recent performance in this election we conclude in confidence that we are almost home. Allowing, ladies and gentlemen, to single out the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission for special commendation for the courage to do the right thing under exceptionally challenging circumstances. Professional and exemplary while raising the bar of integrity of our public officials and public institutions. It is appropriate to single out for special mention the chair of the IEBC, Wafula Cefurtati for standardization, blackmail, and doing the right thing. It is also appropriate to celebrate our judiciary for sustaining its tradition of broadly keeping much needed guidance especially in allaying of post-election anxieties and resolving mediances in a sensitive, credible, and authoritative manner. Judiciary's articulation of the aspirations and standards enshrined in the constitution has deepened our democracy and institutionalized our rule of law without a doubt Kenya's biggest constitutional dividend. The judiciary has successfully amputated three election districts and defended the nation against formidable consulates on our constitution. Our judiciary has demonstrated transparency in its proceedings and decision-making thereby consolidating its independence, authority, and legitimacy. I take this opportunity to say a special word of appreciation to our security services for a commendable job at a critical moment in our nation. Their services and heroic sacrifices they have made beyond the goal of duty has kept our nation safe. That our uniformed services effectively resisted consulate attempts to foment unrest and survive commendation also goes to all our candidates in various positions. Their participation enhanced competition and enriched public debate that underpins democratic choice. Special recognition goes to my weather competitor and friend, the Honorable Reiler and Honorable Giga and his running mate, the Honorable Mother Kepongari Karua and all the other candidates who mounted a vigorous and determined campaign. I assure them that their supporter will be my constituents irrespective of who they voted for. It also goes to millions of Kenyans in the Hasla movement for tirelessly. Our special gratitude also goes to millions of Kenyans in the Hasla movement for tirelessly mobilizing for the campaign and executing a historic revolutionary freedom fighter. Volunteers, agents, mobilizers and those who contributed whatever they do in whatever form to keep the movement going. There's community and institutions for their support, their prayer and their courage. I commend the charge in particular and in equal measure the Islamic religious leadership for their considerable support to us and our campaign. We also appreciate them for continuously exploring avenues for interfaith understanding and solidarity which have gone a long way to enhance tolerance and cohesion in Kenya. Faithless institutions continue to play a noble and indispensable role in our communities and I commit that we will enhance our partnership, build on our cooperation and enhance our support. At this juncture it is important for me to speak directly to the youth and especially those who participated in one way or another in the election campaign and enticement to be misused as agents of conflict and disruption during the electoral period. I also congratulate those who went out to seek various roles within campaigns and elections thus playing their part in keeping Kenya's democracy robust. Even if your candidate is not winning, your participation in the activities over political parties, campaigns and elections is the beginning of political internship. Good journey, similarly, began as a young campaign volunteer fresh out of universities in 1999. Form the basis for your leadership journey going into. We have all therefore emerged out of this contest stronger, more united and allied to the issues that are common to all of us. We should remain conscious that we are all being elected to work together in ensuring that our children go to school, our people have food and decent health care and our young people have jokes and our workers. For we believe strongly that every household matters. Leave in the heart of Kenya who struggle daily against daunting odds often with nothing except stubborn coordination and about willingness to work hard and a commitment to a vision, dreams can become reality in the fullness of time and to keep every door open until success stories become so that we can together expand opportunity and chance for many. Ladies and gentlemen, we should consolidate our success in the just completed election and enhance the capacity. Innovative deployment of technology to secure election results has been the electoral commission's pioneering breakthrough. Going forward, we will support the IEBC's institutional capacity so as to expand the deployment of technology to cover all elections from those of MCA to those of the Facebook. I also believe that there is tremendous opportunity for IEBC to support electoral processes in our political parties and to share it in our constitutional and democratic dispensation. My administration will respect judicial decisions while we cement the place of Kenya as a country anchored on democracy and the rule of law. A campaign of financial independence of the judiciary has paid off with the implementation of the judiciary fund on July 1 this year. My administration will scale up the budgetary allocation to the judiciary by an additional three billion chillings annually for the next five years. We'll support the bottom-up scaling of justice by increasing the number of small claims quotes from the current 25 to 100. We will also work with the judiciary to build hikers in the remaining seven counties and magistrate quotes in the remaining 123 sub-counts to support their ongoing digitisation. These interventions will empower the judiciary to adjudicate and expeditiously conclude corruption cases, commercial disputes and all other matters thereby enhancing access to justice and efficiency in our judiciary. Constrait my commitment to the independence of the judiciary this afternoon I will appoint the six judges already nominated for appointment. Tomorrow I shall reside over their swearing in so that they can get on with the business of serving the people of Kenya. The institution, the Inspector General of Police is mandated to exercise independent command over the National Police Service. Operational autonomy, however, has been undermined by the continued financial dependence on the office of the President. This situation is going to change. As I address you, that the instrument of national autonomy to the National Police Service by transferring the office of the President and designating the Inspector General as the accounting officer be placed on my desk for signature this afternoon. Invite us to the fight against corruption and end the political weaponisation of the criminal justice system and undertake it I made to the people of Kenya. The intimidation that was visited on IBC commissioners and staff during the election was also meted out, I assure you. Even chiefs and their assistants will be required to run political errands for any political party for the economy, press them in on job creation and the well-being of the people of Kenya and we have been working continuously on the measures to bring down the cost of living. Our people are confronted daily with increasingly unaffordable prices, especially food and transport. In our economic corner, we share their anxiety, their pain and their fury. For example, also now, the interventions in place fuel subsidy alone, the taxpayers have spent a whopping $144 billion, $60 billion in the last four months alone. The subsidy continues to the end of the financial year. It will cost taxpayers $280 billion equivalent to the entire national government development budget. Additionally, it was an attempt to subsidize Unga in the run-up to the election. A proper addition to being very costly for subsidy interventions are prone to abuse. They distort markets and create uncertainty, including artificial strategies of the very products they seek to subsidize. The cost of living challenges are related in our respect for submission to production. Our strategy to bring down the cost of living is predicated on empowering producers. The forecast for May's harvest this year is below 30 million bucks against a normal production of 40 million bucks. The main cause of the decline in production is the high cost of farm inputs. Our priority intervention, therefore, is to make fertilizer good quality seeds and other agricultural inputs affordable and available. For the short term, we have a great many arrangements to make 1.4 million bucks of fertilizer available at Kenya Shilling's $3,500 for a 50 kilogram from the current $6,000 to be available from next week. I appeal to the central and western regions where we are expecting short breaks to work with us in making sure that this fertilizer is available to all farmers in that region so that we can begin the journey to increase our food production initiatives. Additionally, to push the farmers we have made arrangements with KTDA to immediately supply tea farms with fertilizer at 3,500 shillings down from Kenya Shilling's $5,600. This year in a medium term and in the long term. We are like the challenges of growth that base seven counties which are now at along all 13 and 13 third stage perspective. We are determined to ensure that our county, no county slips into emergency phase and we coordinate county governments which are the first line of our response that I want to ask my colleagues, governments Kenya and especially those regions to work with us in this endeavor. We are mobilizing resources to reverse this situation. Our goal is not just to provide relief and recovery to restore the situation but invest and unlock the huge economic potential of regiments that constitute two insides of our country. Ladies and gentlemen, is our other private youth unemployment. Every year, 800,000 young people join the workforce and over 600,000 of them do not find opportunities for productive work. However, our young people in cities and towns face very hostile environments many times treated as a nuisance and their hassles criminal. Those who seek to set up formal businesses are faced with a bureaucratic monster that is a political crisis. Our immediate agenda is to create a favorable business and enterprise environment, decriminalize livelihoods and support people in the informal sector to organize themselves into stable, viable and credit worthy business entities. This is the essence of the bottom-up economic model which creates a path for traders and entrepreneurs to build linkages, experience safety and enjoy security as they go about their... We will work with county governments to create frameworks that provide security trading, secure trading places in our cities. We have committed specifically the city of Nairobi to work with the county government of Nairobi to build an additional 20 markets in the city of Nairobi alone as we do, as we work with financial inclusion, creation, and the people's well-being. We shall take measures to drive down the cost of credit, ease to shift the security framework from its current community all for nothing with very different views. On a new system of credit-scorating that provides borrowers with an opportunity to manage their credit worthiness, this will eliminate the culture of... In our engagement, traders also complain about the following exceeding one million. Many have reported to storing money under their mattresses at great risk, which is clearly not the intention of the anti-money non-regulations. Mitigating this risk, we believe that they spoke to mitigating this risk. We believe they spoke to make compliance the espionage on genuine business transactions. I have been assured by the central bank, by national system, shortly I will be announcing to the country what we have agreed with the central bank so that Kenyans can go ahead and facilitate their transactions without unnecessary impediments. Ladies and gentlemen, we shall implement the Hustler Fund dedicated to the capitalization of micro, small, and medium enterprises through channels, circles, and operatives to make credit available on affordable terms that do not require unnecessary collateral. To implement all these interventions, we shall establish a Ministry of Corporatives and SME development mandated to ensure that every small business has secure property rights, access to finance, and a supportive regulatory framework. Furthermore, to deal with a huge challenge, we will roll out our social targeting and operating of 250,000 units every year. This will create opportunities in the entire job market. We will engage different institutions to provide necessary skills to enable the dual-cali industry to supply standardized products for our housing program. We will leverage on our competitive advantage in the leather and textile industry to roll out our labor-intensive agro-processing industrialization program. We'll start in Naibasha Industrial Park and Dongokundo. I will be issuing instructions for clearing of goods, operational issues to revamp to the port of Mombasa. In the city, we must stabilize our public finances. This year, we will spend 60% of our revenues to service our debt. We are faced with Kenya Shilin's 60 billion in pending bills for goods and services to supply to government. Clearly, we are living beyond our means. This situation must be correct. I am aware that many individuals, family and their businesses have been driven to ruin and forced to shut down our government and paying bills. We shall give priority to the expeditious resolution of our pending bills so that the government can meet its obligations and facilitate better economic performance. In the coming weeks, we shall advise government creditors on the mechanisms for their solutions over outstanding pains. We are committed to ensuring that they are paid in the shortest time possible. Additionally, we urgently need to expand our tax base. Our job creation agenda and the capitalization of our SMEs will go a long way in broadening our tax profits. We will make KRA more professional, efficient, responsive and people-friendly response by undertaking their patriotic duty and pay. In adherence to this, oversight institutions such as the Bolivar General and the control of budgets will be adequately funded to execute their mandates. On the matter of gender parity, I am committed to the two-third gender rule as enshrined in our constitution. We will work with parliament to first draft various legislative proposals and establish a framework that will solve this matter expeditiously, as I promised in our manifesto. A participation of women in our governance must not make us lesser, it makes us greater. And their role can no longer be nominal, it must be certain. Our health agenda is premised on fundamental reform in the way health is financed and provided. We shall reform the National Insurance Fund to make it a social health insurance provider improve procurement of medical supplies, deploy and integrate our health information system and most importantly provide adequate human resources at all levels. Contributions to the National Hospital Insurance Fund will now be graduated and will depend on people's income. Ladies and gentlemen in the country on education and in particular the implementation of CBC curriculum. I will establish an education reform task force in the presidency which will be launched in the coming weeks. It will collect views from all players in line with the constitutional demand of public participation and we are particularly allied to the anxieties of parents on the twin transition of the last April 4th class and the past CBC class in January next year. We are sure that there will be a solution to the matter before then. The complaint has always been that the diaspora does not receive any better attention and attention they deserve. The focus has been on remittances while the fundamental rights as citizens are pledged to elevate to a ministry level strengthen diaspora services in all embassies and a committee that will exclusively deal with diaspora issues and set up a mechanism for public participation by Kenya living in diaspora. Equally I will work closely to expand and enhance participation in all our elections. Ladies and gentlemen the evolution and sharing of power and resources is not just governance in our constitution but it also is the ground given of our constitutional dispensation and the proudest achievement of the constitution and Kenya's yarn for us. All are the best ways of accelerating national development is through collaboration with potential of intergovernmental synergy and look forward to scaling up our capacity to harness bountiful possibilities realisation in accelerating the transfer of outstanding functions to counties together with their agenda and resources. To promote budget efficiency and minimise disruption and delay in the old service delivery my administration commits to take necessary measures to secure the timely dispassment of revenues allocated to county governments. The success of the evolution depends on sound intergovernmental actions. There is a template which incorporates lessons from successes as well as failures in past achievements and withstand a stronger chance of making the evolution while Kenya will continue ladies and gentlemen to be a dedicated partner to peace, security and prosperity of East Africa. We look forward to deepening our integration. We welcome our newest member the DRC whose entry now extends our region from the Indian Ocean to the Atlanta. Kenya is fully committed to the implementation of the East African Community Treaty and the peace protocols of free movement of people goods. Equally important is our commitment to the full actualisation of the African continental free trade area. Ladies and gentlemen Kenya will continue to create its role in international diplomacy at the bilateral and major international peace initiatives in our country in our region including both in Ethiopia our next mission who has done commendable engagement with those regions and he has graciously agreed to continue sharing those discussions on behalf of the people of Kenya I have committed that the government of Kenya and myself in particular will support those initiatives that will be chaired by President Uguro Kenyatta and I want to thank you your excellency for graciously agreeing to support us and to help me women and local community without further consequences of climate it is not too late to respond tackle this threat to keep global heating levels essential health and addiction to fossil fuels opportunity to lead the world we have immense potential for renewable energy reducing costs of renewable energy technologies make these the most viable energy sources Kenya is on transition to clean energy that will support jobs local economies and sustainable industrialisation in Kenya we will leave this endeavour by affirming our commitment to transition to 100% energy by 2030 we call on all our brothers and sisters in our continent as members of the international community we shall support a successful climate summit in Africa in November by championing delivery of finance and technology needed for Africa to adapt to climate impacts support those in need our special is ready to work with global partners to fight pandemics and we are also committed to promoting Kenya's vigilance and efficacy in responding to emerging public health challenges we stand ready to play our role in the collective efforts to keep the public safe ladies and gentlemen my government commits to create a business that eradicates barriers we are an open democratic society founded on freedom and justice treating visitors and offering them our legendary hospitality Kenya is a land of immense natural beauty and unforgettable delights ladies and gentlemen I start here on my day one as president I make a commitment that in the days ahead I promise that I am going to better define the trajectory of my administration I promise to make every Kenyan proud and to ensure the economic well-being of all of us without exception ladies and gentlemen for being patient with us and I want to commit that I will work hard for all the people of Kenya irrespective of who who I also promise the leaders present retire so that we can build one nation and harness every talent every effort all energies in driving our republic I commit to all those in their place in our nation who are friends in our leader in Kenya we look forward to waiting for the success of the leaders God bless you God bless Kenya ladies and gentlemen that marks the end of an era for the former president and the beginning of a new era for his excellency the president of Kenya Dr. William Samoy Ruto and guys it's been an amazing celebration right here at the Kasarani Stadium whereby the swearing in of Dr. Samoy Arapuruto the current president of Kenya and it was a great time for everyone with the dignitaries and the president across the country and across the world attending this ceremony thank you so much for watching this particular event make sure you leave a comment down below on how you found the entire celebration thank you so much for watching SPM Buzz my good name is Miskipinchi until next time it's goodbye