President Uhuru Kenyatta has urged Kenyans to exercise sacrifice like the leaders who have ruled this country 53 years down the line since the country acquired its independence.
Speaking during the annual national prayer breakfast meeting at Safari Park, the president said Kenyans must learn to trust each other urging that it is not about convenience but because we have learnt from the past adding that Kenya has gone through difficult times to reach where it is today.
He said the nation will exist long even after the leaders are gone and its everyone’s duty to remain loyal to the country and patriotic as the country cannot be built on hate, suspicion and malice.
He urged Kenyans not to interpret the Holy books the way they want but asked them to live according to the teachings of the holy word, and in the same spirit defend the constitution because it is the one that should guide Kenyans in everything they do.
“Kenyans especially after fighting for the new constitution should go by its demands and teachings.” The president stated.
He said as an individual he will abide by the constitution whether it’s convenient for him or not and urged all Kenyans to obey and abide by the constitution as well.
The president stated that the the constitution exercises so much freedoms and rights at the same time guiding them how to do things on particular issues.
The president said God has greater thoughts for this country, and will help it conquer the spirit of ignorance and give hope to the young people as they continue praying.
Concerning IEBC issue
President Uhuru Kenyatta said he will stick to the law over the push to remove commissioners at the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC).
He stated he would not be party to any agenda that seeks to undermine the Constitution.
“I swore to defend this Constitution and I will just do that. It is not about what is only good for you and if it is not you think it is not good for others,” he said.
President Kenyatta said the Constitution was fought for very hard and that “it will outlive all of us.”
He said attention should be on the ways to improve the living standards of Kenyans not on things that the Constitution has already indicated how they should be done.
Answering Kiambu Town MP Jude Njomo who had asked God to intervene in the crisis, the President said God had already helped the country to have a Constitution and that it was time “for us to follow it.”
The president said God had already provided what is needed and asked Kenyans to read the constitution praying that the country will be united through the things they intend to do and things that can make the country great and stop interpreting their own things.
He said every Kenyan has a role to fight for the country and if they will together pull as a united nation they will achieve better and greater things.
He said no one should allow a few individuals to misinterpret the few teachings from the prayer meeting but embrace the spirit of patriotism in them.
The deputy president of Kenya William Ruto urged Kenyans to exercise faithfulness justice and love towards the country so that it may achieve its goals.
Ruto said he does not know where this country would be without God saying as Kenyans and leaders they have witnessed so much that without prayers they wouldn’t have made it.
Speaking at the breakfast, the National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi urged Kenyans to be instruments of peace, unity and prosperity for the nation.
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Cabinet Secretary Joseph Mucheru said at the forum: “We must remind ourselves that we are 42 tribes working together as one not against one another. In order to work together it takes trust.”
The annual prayer breakfast meeting saw many leaders in Kenya and outside Kenya come together.
