THE ‘MASHUJAA’ ASSIGNMENT The ones we crowned Mashujaa today were not necessarily favorites in their own time: hunted in the forests, chained at Kapenguria, written off as troublesome, and castigated as dreamers. They were only refusing the limits of their age, pushing at a wall until it became a door. The wall still stands. It has new names. Equity, so that where you were born does not decide how far you go. Prosperity, so that work pays, and the farmer, the trader, the young coder, anyone within borders, eat from what they build. Unity, so that we walk one road as one people; more as one nation. Innovation, so that Kenya and Kenyans too can shine with solutions for problems far beyond borders. None of it comes by wishing. It comes by reporting to duty with diligence, by discipline when no one is watching, by doing the next hard thing, and the next, until the impossible becomes reality. Every age needs someone to walk first into the dark and hold the light steady, to choose the harder road and say: here is a way. In our time, H.E. President Dr. @WilliamsRuto, CGH has carried that light to the front, calling a nation to Usawa and pushing for reforms others feel should be left for later. So the work continues. It is the assignment. Each of us is handed a piece of it to execute. ‘Ask not what your country can do for you. But rather ask what you can do for your country.’ That’s the take home from Mashujaa Day showcased marvelously by the ‘Champions’. Well done Nandi, Elgeyo Marakwet and Uasin Gishu!

Thank you Baba Raila Odinga. Continue Resting in Peace!

Happy Mazingira Day! Today we planted 10,000 trees at Pap Kakan, Alego Usonga, Siaya County. This builds on the 20,000 fruit tree seedlings we distributed in Siaya County with H.E. First Lady @MamaRachelRuto, EGH on 8th September 2026, in the same spirit of conservation that also grows the economy of our families and households. I also urged Kenya Forest Officers and the National Government Administrative Officers for doubled efforts to conserve the Got Abiero and Got Ramogi natural forests, so that indigenous species cover these gazetted hills. These initiatives happening across the country are spearheaded by H.E President Dr. @WilliamsRuto, CGH; whose agenda targets planting of 15 Billion trees in 10 years.

H.E. President Dr. @WilliamsRuto, CGH this morning inspected the construction and equipping of the 26 bed Maternal and 54 bed Newborn Ward at Endebess Sub-County Hospital, Trans Nzoia County. This KES 248.8 million investment is about one thing: that every mother in Endebess gives birth safely, and every newborn gets the best start in life, close to home. Under the National Equipment Support Programme (NESP), Endebess now has a working ultrasound and laboratory. Mothers can get scans and tests here instead of travelling long distances. Kijana Wamalwa Level 5 Hospital and Bondeni Health Centre have also received equipment that is installed and serving patients, a total of KES 40 million in Trans Nzoia. And more is possible with county government request. Through the Social Health Authority, Government has paid KES 2.36 billion to health facilities in Trans Nzoia. This money is keeping our hospitals running and serving wananchi. Sadly, only 43.5% of residents in Trans Nzoia are registered with SHA, against 69.7% nationally. More than 559,000 residents are not yet covered. We call on every family, leader, Community Health Promoter and citizen in Trans Nzoia to make registration a priority by Dialing *147# today.

HEALTH SECTOR OPENS PUBLIC BUDGET HEARINGS At today's Health Sector Medium Term Expenditure Framework 27/28 to 29/30 Public Hearings, we showed the impact of health reforms delivery that has seen 33M Kenyans registered on SHA, 107,831 Community Health Promoters reaching millions of Kenyans with preventive screening and a record 96.2% efficiency score in budget implementation in realization of value for the money. We will continue to work with all Kenyans and the National Treasury to ring-fence key recurring priorities of Blood availability, Vaccination, Health Workforce development and health commodity security. Budget hearings are a constitutional public participation event for prioritizing sector plans. We are grateful for the robust turn-out and intense engagement by Kenyans on matters health to shape the next budget lines for the financial year 27/28. Citizens input is still welcome through emails [email protected] and [email protected] until Tuesday 13th October 2026.

HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCING: NAIROBI Early morning, I held an enlightening conversation with Dr. @benchitunga (Dr. Benard Chitunga) - Chancellor Cooperative University of Kenya and seniour executive at the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, on proposals for expanding health infrastructure as a basis for ensuring services are available. On that note, the Chancellor informed the State Department for Medical Services that the Cooperative University was advanced in the design of Teaching, Research and Referal Hospital as part of foundation to establish medical and nursing training and research. We also explored opportunities for financing health infrastructure across the country guaranteed by the robust, stable, predictable and sustainable model we have in the Social Health Authority. Dr. Chitunga remains an astute globally accomplished mind and expert in designing and structuring financing. We are the better for his support and panoramic view of financing landscape.

The Ministry of Health is integrating the Hospital Management Information Systems with the already established and functional Digital Health Information Exchange.

EDUCATION SUMMIT: MASENO UNIVERSITY Education is a key engine of national development. At today's Regional Education Summit at Maseno University, the full breadth of Kenya's education leadership convened as one: KICD, KLB and KNEC amongst others; Directors of Basic Education; university council members; tens of Vice-Chancellors and leading professors; and the teachers' unions, led by KNUT Secretary-General Collins Oyuu and KUPPET Secretary-General Akelo Misori. Together we deliberated on strengthening education institutions and initiatives to transform the communities it serves. Alongside PSs CPA Carren Ageng'o (Children Services), Aurelia Rono (Parliamentary Services) and Cyrell Odede (Public Investments and Asset Management), I called on universities to transform how they train, producing skills for the future and the talent needed to deliver quality services in sectors such as healthcare. I also took the chance to outline H.E. President @WilliamsRuto’s health reform agenda being delivered by the @MOH_Kenya. The education sector must drive health innovation through research as well as mobilize its vast community of parents, learners, teachers and staff to benefit from SHA by registering and paying premiums; integrate on ongoing EWENE campaigns to reduce maternal mortality and realign the training to health reform priorities.

MARANDA HIGH SCHOOL VISIT, SIAYA COUNTY. I had the privilege of returning to my former school, Maranda High School, where I spent time with the students and shared a message of hope, purpose, discipline, and service. Returning to the institution that played an important role in shaping my journey was deeply meaningful. I encouraged the students to believe in themselves, pursue excellence, remain disciplined, and prepare themselves to become responsible leaders who will serve their communities and our nation with distinction. The future of our country rests in the hands of our young people. We must continue to inspire them, equip them with knowledge and values, and give them the confidence to dream boldly and work diligently to turn those dreams into reality.

KANG’O KA JARAMOGI: RAILA ANNIVERSARY Led by Deputy Chief of Staff Josphat Nanok, today we were at Kang’o Ka Jaramogi to make final preparations ahead of Raila Anniversary events. Grateful to His Excellency President Dr. @WilliamsRuto, CGH and Mama Dr. @IdaOdinga, EGH for the honour to serve in the orgnaization of the Official 1st Year Anniversary and unveiling of the Mausoleum of Former Prime Minister Rt. Hon. Baba Raila Amolo Odinga. The loss of Raila Odinga, nearly a year ago, still hurts my heart now as it did on the fateful 15th October, 2025. That he was buried on my birthday is a permanent mark of remembrance. I’m privileged and grateful to work on his post-humous legacy, not less for the much inspiration and nurture of public service that I owe to him.

Very pleased to have brought this achievement home from the just concluded UNGA 81 making local manufacturing of drugs no longer a talk but a reality.

UHC: A POLITICAL CHOICE The World Health Organization has long asserted that the single most essential ingredient needed to overcome systemic barriers, mobilize domestic resources and align multi sectoral sectors and partners for the achievement of universal health coverage is political commitment. At the global stage, world leaders and heads of state are encouraged to make health very deliberate political choice aligning with the fundamental need to anchor health as a right and economic development prerequisite. Demonstrating Kenya’s case on political commitment driving delivery of reforms, PS Medical Services Dr. Oluga told a global audience of more than 500 international chief executives that there can be no better proof than President of Kenya His Excellency Dr. William Ruto speaking about health every single day of his leadership.

The past, the present and the purpose. Watch! youtu.be/fEi6tfPn_Zk?si=23lK…

RABAT, MOROCCO Honored to accompany H.E. @MamaRachelRuto, EGH; First Lady of the Republic of Kenya, to the Kingdom of Morocco on official visit. She was received by her host Her Royal Highness Princess Lalla Asmaa in Rabat. This visit reciprocates Her Royal Highness Princess Lalla Asmaa visit in November 2025 and the work of changing the lives of children with among other initiatives intervention on hearing impairments through cochlear implantation. Our National facilities namely Kenyatta National Hospital; Kenyatta University Teaching Research and Referral Hospital; Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital and MP SHAH hospital have benefited from this partnership and continue to train their health specialities in this rare skill. Kenya and Morocco are strengthening bilateral relationships following the signing of 11 MoUs across various sectors in April 2026 among them Health Corporation on Manufacturing and Specialists Training.

"Finance is the fuel of the system." The first premise of Kenya's health reform: stable, predictable and sustainable financing mechanism from our own resources that aligns with population health needs. That is why the Social Health Authority exists. #ReformsDelivered #SHA