Speech by His Excellency President Uhuru Kenyatta, C.G.H., on Madaraka Day, June 1, 2018

Abstract

Ladies and gentlemen, it is a special pleasure to join the people of Kenyans for today’s celebration and commemoration. We owe a great debt to the sons and daughters of this country and all the other heroes who fought for Kenya to be free. The tree of our liberty was, as our founding President said, watered by their blood. It is a debt we can neither repay, nor ever forget. The heroes and heroines, the founders, and fathers of this nation, were wise. They knew that if we did not regularly remind ourselves what our freedom had cost; we would be lax in defending it…