NEW YEAR MESSAGE
Issued by the Sungu Oyoo Campaign Secretariat
Nairobi – 4 January 2026.
Comrades and compatriots,
2025 has come to an end for all of us. Goodbye to 2025.
In 2025, we had shared moments of joy, love and laughter. Together with family, friends and compatriots, we strengthened bonds and created community despite the adversities of life.
We also had moments and extended periods of sadness, grief and despair over the course of 2025. Just like in June 2024, Kenyan youth again came out to the streets in 2025 to demand for accountability from the Ruto regime. Our peaceful protests were met with violence and unwarranted killings. We continue demanding for justice for Albert Ojwang – alongside more than 50 of our compatriots who were martyred by the Kenyan state.
At the dawn of this new year, we at the Sungu Oyoo Campaign Secretariat are issuing this statement that is particularly directed toward the creation of a new society – and by extension, the birth of a new republic. In this regard, we will today focus on six(6) issues which we believe are of national importance at this particular moment in history:
1.Corruption.
Corruption in Kenya continues to grow at endemic levels, and has in fact been transformed into an industry. The Ruto regime has basically made the healthcare system dysfunctional, as evidenced by recent events at Kenyatta National Hospital, the largest healthcare facility in East and Central Africa, which is not only facing drug shortages but also unable to feed patients because of food shortages occasioned by non-payment of suppliers to the tune of 2.3 Billion.
This is happening in a hospital that generates 40-60m shillings a day, translating to a minimum revenue collection of 1.2 billion shillings on a monthly basis. Where is all this money going to? Why are suppliers unpaid despite the revenue collected? Why are patients sleeping hungry?
This regime is also slowly but surely collapsing the education sector. This regime is additionally hell-bent on privatizing state owned entities for the benefit of a few well-connected individuals as evidenced by events of the past year.
The Ruto regime is today talking of developing world-class infrastructure by borrowing – a fact which only serves to compound the irony because this regime rode to power saying that it wouldn’t borrow, but has instead borrowed more than all previous regimes.
2.Economic transformation – Singapore
The Ruto-Kenya Kwanza regime rode to power on the backs of working class Kenyans. Their 2022 campaign was based on the hustler narrative which was anchored on a bottom-up economic transformation agenda. They have miserably failed in achieving what they promised in 2022 – and the only thing that they have successfully delivered to the Kenyan people is more promises.
They have most recently come up with the brilliant but poorly-conceptualized idea of turning Kenya into a first world country – the so-called Singapore. This is voodoo economics.
Those of us who are economists by training know that this is economic witchcraft because you cannot transition an economy from the backwaters of economic development through borrowing and theft of public resources. The means of production (including land, minerals, fisheries, stock exchange) are still largely in the hands of foreign interests and a small comprador class that does not work in the interest of the Kenyan people.
You cannot transition to first world without an education system that has a clear developmental philosophy behind it. You cannot transition to first-world without a clear industrialization policy. You cannot transition to first world while unable to feed sick patients in Kenyan public hospitals because of corruption. And so, when they talk of first class, we ask, first class for who?
Singapore, which they have been using as an example, did not develop through economic guesswork. Singapore did not develop through corruption as some government officials have recently insinuated. Singapore did not develop through voodoo economics.
3.Land Grabs
The land question in Kenya remains unresolved more than 60 years after independence.
In October 2025, William Ruto signed 8 bills, including the National Land Commission (Amendment) Bill into law. This was soon-after followed by news that the government intended to privatize a number of beaches and islands at the Kenyan Coast – a move that will not only dispossess thousands of families of their ancestoral land, but also bring our commons within the dominion of a few individuals and companies.
We have also witnessed forced evictions and demolitions across many parts of Nairobi – including in Mathare, Makongeni, Kariobangi and Kiamaiko. Most recently, we have witnessed evictions in Mukuru despite the courts having granted an order to stop the evictions. At least three(3) lives have been lost in these evictions in Mukuru in 2025 alone. We continue to witness similar occurences across the country, including in Mau-Narok, Transmara, and most recently – in Ikolomani, Kakamega, where massive gold deposits were recently discovered. The government is today asking the residents of Ikolomani to move from their ancestoral land so that a British company can mine gold.
Are British companies more important than the Kenyan people? And so, we ask again, in whose interests does the Ruto-Kenya Kwanza government act?
4.Diplomatic immunity for French soldiers.
In November 2025, the Kenyan government tabled before Parliament a new Defense Cooperation Agreement with the French government that will, among other things, grant French soldiers diplomatic immunity for crimes committed on Kenyan soil. This is a dangerous move comrades. We need to ask ourselves, what crimes are the French military planning on committing within Kenyan soil that needs immunity even before the crimes are committed?
Kenya has particularly had similar experiences with British soldiers who have, over the years, committed egregious crimes including rape and murder – especially in Laikipia, Isiolo and Samburu counties. We have never seen justice served in these past instances, primarily because of similar defense cooperation arrangements.
Why the sudden rush to grant French soldiers immunity for crimes committed in Kenya? Comrades, this move is a forerunner to the Africa-France summit that is slated to be held in Kenya early in 2026. One of the key outcomes of this summit will be the establishment of French military facilities in Kenya, after the French were kicked out of the Sahel region by African countries intent on reclaiming their sovereignty.
Kenyans must rise up against this bill. This bill, which is still before Parliament, must be defeated through our collective efforts.
5.Referendum.
The Prime Cabinet Secretary, Musalia Mudavadi, recently claimed that Kenya needs to hold a referendum to avert a constitutional crisis. We wish to make it clear that this referendum push is a selfish attempt to secure unconstitutional offices like Mudavadi’s and probably force an extension of presidential term limits so that Ruto can stay in office longer than what the constitution mandates. That is why we insist on WAN-TAM
It is clear to all that Kenya is not facing a constitutional crisis that requires any amendment of the constitution. That is why progressive forces working toward social transformation – including at Kongamano la Mapinduzi – insist on implementation and not amendment of the constitution.
If in any case the constitution is to be amended, it should be to either collapse the two houses of parliament into one for we are over-represented, or to designate acts of corruption as economic crimes that are treasonous in nature and punishable by death.
Comrades, we need to strengthen the constitution, not desecrate it.
6.Birth of a new Republic
We wish to put the ruling class on notice. Your time is up. We refuse to listen to your lies – whether they are lies about infrastructure bonds, or lies about Singapore, or lies about god-knows-what.
Kenyans are not asking for the impossible. Our demands as a people are quite simple and clear. Kenyans want education. Kenyans want healthcare. We want an end to corruption. We want a regime that respects the dignity and sanctity of human life. We want a society that can guarantee us peace, justice and dignity. We want to secure our future as a generation.
To our politicians, in 2026, each and every Kenyan will plug ten fingers into their ears anytime they listen to you on television or radio until the day you stop lying.
Comrades and compatriots, we must continue to aspire for the creation of new worlds. Kenyan youth must be at the forefront of efforts to imagine this new society. We implore all who desire a better Kenya to join us at Kongamano la Mapinduzi, at Ukweli Party, and at the Kenya Left Alliance – in building this new society.
Stay safe as we cross into the new year – for we will need to hold one another’s hands in our forward march towards freedom.
Wishing all Kenyans a peaceful, just and prosperous 2026.
May Kenya rise.
May Africa rise.
Sungu Oyoo – Comrade President
Nairobi, 31 December 2025.