A HALF CENTURY OF SELFLESS SERVING THE NATION-Mwai Kibaki



A HALF CENTURY OF SELFLESS SERVING THE NATION.

We salute you Mr. President, for selfless serving our Country. He has done a lot for this nation and his leadership style is to be admired and emulated by many, he is a true role model to many African leaders today. I bet he is doing some of the work which should have been done 20 years ago (a good example is infrastructural development, decongestion of the city among other projects).We will remember you for engineering the birth of new constitution.



Here is a brief history:-
In early 1960, Mwai Kibaki left academia for politics when he gave up his job at Makerere and returned to Kenya to become executive officer of Kenya African National Union (KANU), He was previously Vice-President of Kenya for ten years from 1978 to 1988 and also held cabinet ministerial positions, including a widely acclaimed stint as Minister for Finance (1969–1981), Minister for Home Affairs (1982–1988) and Minister for Health (1988–1991).[2]
After resigning as a cabinet minister in 1991, Kibaki served as an opposition Member of Parliament from 1991 up to his election as Kenya's third president in 2002 after two unsuccessful bids for the Kenyan presidency in 1992 and 1997.
He was sworn in on the night of 30 December 2007 for his second term as president after controversially emerging as the winner of a bitterly contested election. The election was marked by accusations of fraud and widespread irregularities that led to the post-election violence of 2007–2008.

Kibaki's political style during these years was described as gentlemanly and non confrontational. This mild style also exposed him to criticism that he was a spineless, or even cowardly, politician who never took a stand.
Here are a few remarks which we will always remember:-

“Eti wewe unajifanya unajua saana, unafikiria wewe ni nani?”

“Yote yenye tumefanya inaonekana,na hakuna aja ya kubembeleza, hata mtoto amezaliwa anaona”- On jamhuri day, talking about the achievement his government has achieved.



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