Press Statements

We would like to reiterate that Kenya’s GEN Z make up 34 % of the Country’s population, if we added 21% of the population that are Millennials, then the voting youth are a minimum 55% of Kenya’s voting population. This Kenya Kwanza administration is therefore stealing and squandering our future, we cannot allow them. We will be in the streets protesting till they stop this theft guised in Budgeted Corruption.

No amount of armoury, guns, tear gas police brutality or maiming of the citizenry can hold a regime in power. People Power as enshrined in the Constitution at Art 37 and espoused by Art 10 of The Constitution of Kenya, 2010 is the best that our fore-bearers handed this nation. We urge Kenyans to forever use these provisions to ensure that the country does not glide into the dictatorship of the yester-years.

The United Green Movement Party (UGM Party) would like thank Kenyans for turning out to elect their favorite leaders on 9th August, 2022. As a Party, we were not lucky to make the achievements we had projected, we thank our support base for showing up and voting for our candidates across the country. As Greens, we have already started the journey of making Greens major part of our County Assemblies and the House of Parliament as we look forward to victory in the 2027 General Elections.

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Fellow Country men and Women, the United Green Movement Party is on this 24th day of April 2022, giving nomination certificates to 96 aspirants from across the country. We have sent out 2 Governor Candidates, 2 senators, 15 Members of Parliament and 77 Members of the County Assembly. The total number of women aspirants are 30. As a party that believes in equality, we would like to encourage as many women as possible to offer themselves for elective offices in each election.

The United Green Movement Party has Rule of Law as a pillar of its Manifesto. The pillar on the rule of law, requires of us to hold public institutions accountable for the work that they are by law supposed to do. We would like to on this Valentine’s Day, spread love to Kenyans by holding the
Independent and Electoral Boundaries Commission accountable, for what in our view might cost Kenyans a transparent, and peaceful General Election in August 2022.
We would like to highlight five areas, which in our view the Independent and Electoral Boundaries Commission (The Commission) is still performing below par;

It is the belief on the rule of law that makes nations civilized, absent that, a nation is simply
inviting anarchy upon itself. The Constitution of Kenya at Article 159 bestows judicial authority.
This judicial authority is derived from the people, and vests in, and shall be exercised by, the
courts and tribunals established by the Constitution. It need not be gainsaid that in Kenya, it is
the people who are sovereign and any State Officer, Public Officer whosoever they may be, only
exercises delegated authority as an agent of the people, who are principal.

The United Green Movement Party manifesto has five pillars of Youth Unemployment, Environment, Economy, Rule of law, Social Justice and Equality.
As a rule of law issue, we would like to laud the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission that has today the 4th of October, 2021 commenced a process, which could be the final stretch of mass voter registration before the August 2022 General Elections. Voter registration in accordance with Section 5 of the Elections Act, is however supposed to be carried out at all times, this mass voter registration enables awareness creation and other voter related education to be conducted en masse.

The Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) released new fuel pump prices last week. That announcement was not received very well by many Kenyans because of the spiral effect the cost of fuel has on several sectors of the economy. Granted, taxes on fuel are a relatively effective source of government revenue, especially when faced with inefficient collection on both personal and corporate income. However, higher and increasing oil prices can have a wide range of adverse economic impacts ranging from a reduction in economic growth which means shrinking job opportunities for young Kenyans, export competitiveness which narrows our GDP options, logistics costs, public transport affordability, reduced household consumption of essentials such as food with its attendant high cost of living, to external accounts disequilibria and inflation.

The United Green Movement Party is an equality political party, with our leadership being a 50-50 representation of female and male. However, equality is not just about ticking the boxes for the numbers, it also needs to meet form. The BBI Constitutional amendment proposed 47 female senators and 47 male senators but did not keep in mind that the senate seeks to represent the counties. That the senators per county ought to vote as one unit! What would happen in the case of divergent opinions of senators from a county on a vote before the senate, what if the two senators in a given county are from two different political parties or have two different political persuasions? The BBI amendment did not reflect upon this. For them, it was to provide for the numbers and bingo!

Kenya is a nation at risk, the ECONOMY is grinding in slow motion. As we speak, Kenya is heavily debt laden. The Parliament of Kenya, to our chagrin, keeps moving our debt ceilings to very unsustainable levels, despite the 1992 Maastricht Treaty binding signatories, of a debt to GDP ratio of no more than 60%. Some of our national assets may soon be auctioned to service the debt!

Today we will be marching to the house of Parliament to dramatize the cause of Youth Unemployment, we will be petitioning Parliament for social safety nets for the unemployed youth in this country. There are millions of unemployed graduates, diploma holders, rural unskilled youth, yet President Uhuru Kenyatta and the former Prime Minister Odinga have no shame in stealing money meant for this vulnerable population. We will be petitioning Parliament to pay a monthly cash stipend to unemployed graduates across the country and also set aside money for the unskilled unemployed youth in the villages under cash for work schemes, to make the youth of our country productive.

We are gathered here as the United Green Movement Party National Governing Convention. The United Green Movement Party turned 2 years on 12th June, 2021. We are here not only to celebrate this milestone as a Party, but take stock of the journey we have walked thus far. We are also here to discuss how to address issues that concern good governance in Kenya, giving proposals for some key areas.

Torch has been Lit for Africa’s Generational Liberation Struggle.

United Green Movement Statement on Doctors Strike.

UGM press release on the President’s State of the Nation Address

UGM Response to CJ’s Advice to President

Joint Statement by Women on CJ Advisory to the President.