Kenya: President Kenyatta's Madaraka Day Speech

Fellow Kenyans, ladies and gentlemen,Let me start by thanking the people of Nakuru County for their warm welcome today. The decision to share the celebrations of our nationhood among the counties is part of the Jubilee administration's desire to include every Kenyan, in word and in deed.

We gather to commemorate the day, fifty three years ago, when Kenyans finally took control of their own government: the day we began to govern ourselves; the day we took responsibility for our social, economic and political destiny.

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