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On 23 January 2022, opposition politician Musalia Mudavadi accepted his party’s nomination for the Kenyan presidency. Promising to fix the economy, he made a hard-hitting speech that played up his legacy as finance minister in the 1990s and tore into the economic policies of the current government.
When president Uhuru Kenyatta delivered his state of the nation address on 30 November 2021, he didn’t correct some inaccuracies Africa Check identified in his Mashujaa Day speech a month before. Any Kenyan president is required to give a proper assessment of the state of the country each year.
In October 2021 Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta was in Kirinyaga county, about 100 kilometres northeast of the capital Nairobi, to mark Mashujaa – Heroes’ – Day. In his speech, Kenyatta highlighted his administration’s milestones since he took office in April 2013. Kenya holds elections in August 2022.