Uhuru Kenyatta

President Uhuru Kenyatta. Image: PSCU. Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy, William Ruto, ascended to Kenya's presidency in March 2013. This ...

By including agriculture in the Big 4 Agenda, Uhuru’s government sought to reduce the severity of these effects. Kenya has a well-established institutional framework for dealing with dishonesty in the management of public resources. Nevertheless, the commission recently demonstrated its mettle when a case that it brought before the court led to a conviction of individuals implicated in a maize procurement fraud worth nearly US$3 million. For example, will the investment in infrastructure be exploited to maximise welfare gains? This mostly targeted satellite industries in the textile, leather, agro-processing, and construction sub-sectors. For the year 2022/23, the country is spending 53.8% of every shilling collected in servicing debt obligations. For example, the annual cancer death rates increased between 2012 and 2018 by almost 16%. It is projected to grow further. This has meant that the country hasn’t been able to effectively address constraints facing the sector. It confers every citizen rights to the “highest attainable standard” of health and access to reasonable standards of housing and sanitation. These projects have the capacity to improve lives. The country’s performance on job creation was weak, with unemployment rates worsening by 2.93 percentage points from 2.81% in 2013 to 5.74% in 2021. Examples include the completed Nairobi Express Way and over 2000 dams that are at various stages of construction.