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Ensure full implementation of the new Constitution. Ensure the country is self-sufficient in food production. Ensure people have access to employment and are productively engaged. Ensure that all Kenyans have access to clean water, that their environment is adequately protected, and that measures are in place to shield all Kenyans from the effects of climate change. Ensure the promotion of industrial, trade and infrastructural development. Ensure the full application of the rule of law and an end to corruption and impunity. Ensure that all historical injustices, including land injustices, are ended and the government provides social protection for everyone. Ensure we promote national unity, creating a society where people are treated equally, regardless of race, tribe, gender or religion, thus ending artificial divisions among our people.
FRIENDS! This is my message to every single one of my countrymen and women. I speak to YOU personally:
When I launched my presidential bid in 2007, I said we must invest heavily in one, two, three things: 1, Infrastructure! 2, Infrastructure! 3, Infrastructure! We have seen the result in, for example, road-building, accelerated growth through ICT, and irrigation projects. We have made a hard-won start. The new ODM Government will extend this work across the whole nation. As I launch my bid to be your President in Kenyas 11th Parliament, I want to tell you that, as the new ODM Government continues with its infrastructure objectives, we shall again invest heavily in one, two, three things and this investment will be for the primary purpose of creating wealth and sharing funds equitably across the entire country. We shall invest in:
1,JOBS!
2,JOBS! 3,JOBS!
Though we are moving, our economy remains far below what it should be.
I know that every one of the ills in our country has its roots in POVERTY.
When we talk of social insecurity, and poor and desperate people turn to petty crime to survive, we know it is as a result of poverty. When we talk of corruption and poor policing, muggings, and extortion by criminal gangs, we know it is as a result of poverty. When we talk of border insecurity, cattle-rustling, attacks on neighbours, and land clashes, we know it is as a result of poverty. When we talk of poor health and education, poor local production and food-insufficiency, we know it is as a result of poverty. In addition to our job-creation programme, ODM will initiate other means to close the gap between haves and have-nots, as well as revolutionising social security. WE SHALL:
expand the social safety-net programmes that we have already begun to implement ensure everyone has access to the quality education and healthcare they need revamp the criminal justice system reform the police force by improving police conditions and finally ending the forces colonial legacy as a brutalising agency. The police force will become a pro-people national agency of assistance and security.