The President and the Agenda 4 score card

President Mwai Kibaki, in his recent State of the Nation address in Parliament, highlighted key issues that the government has achieved and is set to achieve before the much anticipated 2013 general elections. His speech mainly focused on the reforms progress in the country, especially the progress on the implementation of the Agenda 4 of the National Accord and Reconciliation Act (NARA). While the President made a strong appeal to Kenyans to promote the Nation, and reject secession calls from the Coast province, he mainly spoke about devolution, police reforms, fight against corruption and the International Criminal Court proceedings in Kenya. Internews’ Land and Conflict Sensitive Journalism Project has been in the forefront of training and supporting journalists to produce comprehensive, conflict sensitive coverage of the peace, reconciliation and reforms process and inform conflict affected citizens in an ethical, impartial way. Journalists covering issues of conflict and elections will find below the President’s speech (Link here/see attached), edited by Internews. It is provided to air usage by any radio journalist and is designed to act as a lead-in feature for talk-shows, panel discussions and call-in shows. This can be considered as the President’s Agenda 4 score card.