President William Ruto during a broad-based government meeting in Naivasha on August 10, 2026. [PCS]
President William Ruto has said the formation of the broad-based government has accelerated the implementation of development programmes that were contained in the competing political manifestos ahead of the 2022 General Election.
Speaking during a broad-based government meeting in Naivasha, Ruto said the Kenya Kwanza and Azimio political formations had campaigned on different approaches but shared several areas of convergence in their development plans.
He said the broad-based arrangement had therefore brought together ideas and priorities from both sides of the political divide, creating an opportunity for faster implementation.
“The meeting is consequential because we bring a hybrid of ideas, we converge the plan that was in Azimio broadly carried by ODM and converge with the Kenya Kwanza,” Ruto said.
According to the President, the result has been an acceleration in the implementation of the government’s development agenda over the past two years.
“That is why in the last two years the programme of implementing what we wanted for Kenya has picked the pace, there has been acceleration for the delivery of our plan since we became a broad-based government,” he said.
Ruto said the challenge facing his administration after winning the election was not simply having a manifesto but possessing the political courage to implement commitments made to Kenyans.