- Bottom-Up Economic Model — Focus on inclusive growth by targeting low-income “hustler” populations.
- Agriculture & Food Security — Invest at least KSh 250 billion over 5 years, boost productivity (e.g. maize, dairy), and transform poor farmers into surplus producers.
- MSME (Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises) — Allocate KSh 50 billion annually to provide affordable credit via SACCOs, equity funds, long-term loans; support informal traders.
- Housing & Settlement — Build 250,000 affordable houses each year via public-private partnerships; grow the number of mortgages to 1,000,000; set up a Settlement Fund to resettle up to 1 million landless families.
- Healthcare — Roll out “Afya Bora Mashinani”: primary healthcare-based preventive and promotive services; hire 20,000 health workers; universal health coverage (UHC) via NHIF and other reforms.
- Education — Bridge a teacher shortage (116,000 gap) within two financial years; review exam-based progression system; support training; fund universities, TVET, and HELB.
- ICT & Creative Economy — Lay 100,000 km of fibre-optic network; expand broadband to villages, schools, businesses; digitize government services; promote software export.
- Infrastructure — Complete all roads inherited from the previous administration; upgrade rural access roads; improve informal settlement infrastructure.
- Manufacturing — Promote local use of materials (e.g., leather), produce building materials and pharmaceuticals locally.
- Gender & Inclusion — Achieve 50% women in Cabinet; implement the two-thirds gender rule; support women’s welfare (e.g., gender desks in police, welfare fund for women abroad).
- Judicial Independence & Anti-Corruption — Support the judiciary to operate independently; launch a public inquiry into state capture/cronyism within 30 days of taking office.
- Mombasa Port Operations — Reverse port operations back to Mombasa (from Naivasha/Nairobi) to revive business in the coastal region.
- Social Protection — Revamp cash transfer programs, improve NHIF coverage for the elderly and people with disabilities (PWDs).
- Public Service & Security Welfare — Provide affordable mortgages and insurance benefits for public officers (e.g., police), set up benevolent funds for families.
- Sovereign & Infrastructure Funds — (More recent) Setting up a sovereign wealth fund + infrastructure fund to invest in key sectors and reduce excessive borrowing.
- Inquiry into State Capture — Establish a quasi-judicial public inquiry to investigate cronyism and state capture.
- Lower Cost of Living — Commit to measures that would reduce the cost of basic goods, including fertilizer and unga.
- Released Ndung’u Land Report — Delivered: While not always listed in his standard manifesto, there was a public promise related to land transparency; making the Ndung’u Land Report public aligns with this transparency/land governance agenda.
This marks the end of the free public demonstration of information gathering techniques as demonstrated to me by my good friend Drew’s late father in the KDF in 2010.
Captain Y.
Karibu.
