To tackle debt, unemployment, and an underfunded social sector, Kenya must significantly increase its productive capacity to achieve sovereignty. KLA will implement an industrial policy focused on rapidly growing energy production and strategic industrialization.
One County, One Factory: A national and devolved industrialization plan will establish at least one major factory in each of the 47 counties, aiming to absorb millions of unemployed youth.
Enabling environment: We will foster social, cultural, technological, and industrial innovations across often-ignored sectors such as sports, film, and music, while strengthening workers’ unions to prevent exploitation in the newly created jobs.
The KLA commits to taking effective control of the nation’s strategic sectors and placing them under public ownership.
Public control: Essential resources, including air, minerals, energy infrastructure, water bodies, forests, public spaces, transport systems (roads, rails, ports), and utilities, will be restored to and remain under public control, resisting all privatization efforts.
Rejecting servitude: This is the only path to subverting foreign servility and building an economy that provides the constitutional standard of living. KLA will also close all foreign military bases within Kenyan borders.
KLA will conduct a comprehensive debt review to distinguish between funds used for national development and those that were stolen.
Justice for thieves: Individuals who stole national resources and burdened Kenyans with debt will face public trial and be required to repay the proceeds of their theft, with illegally acquired wealth being repossessed.
Legislative action: KLA will challenge the legality of fraudulent debts and enact legislation to lower the national debt ceiling. We will also strengthen the Office of the Auditor General (OAG) to investigate and prosecute these financial criminals.
KLA will launch a comprehensive health sector reform, enforcing a publicly funded Universal Health Care (UHC) system that eliminates the corruption potential of schemes like the new Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF).
Free at point of care: A fully publicly funded basic care package will be provided at all public facilities, free of charge.
Prevention over treatment: A Health Promotion Fund, financed by earmarked taxes on harmful products (tobacco and alcohol), will be introduced to priorities prevention and revolutionize public health. We will also invest heavily in infrastructure and the workforce to reverse the brain drain.
KLA will actualize a sweeping land reform programme. Repossession: All public land and privatized strategic national assets that have been illegally acquired will be repossessed and returned to public or communal ownership.
Constitutional compliance: We will enforce the vesting of lands detailed in the Ndung’u Report back to the people, and return land whose leases expire back to the community.
Equitable access: KLA will legislate the maximum and minimum acreage of landholdings as mandated by the Constitution, ensuring community lands are protected from commodification.
The KLA commits to securing the nation's food future. Outlawing GMOs: We will outlaw Genetically Modified Organisms.
Farmer support: KLA will strengthen extension services, introduce necessary subsidies for small-scale farmers at all stages of production, and ensure they receive just and fair prices.
Infrastructure: We will revitalize irrigation schemes and revive the cooperative movement under a strict ethos to avoid past abuses. Select foods will be placed under price control regimes to ensure affordability for all Kenyans.
KLA will reform the education system to align with the needs of a modern, industrialized, and sovereign Kenya.
New philosophy: Curricula will be improved to impart skills necessary for a state-led industrialization phase anchored on equality and freedom.
Full accessibility: Education will be made freely accessible from the Early Childhood Development (ECD) level to the university, empowering every Kenyan to contribute fully to nation-building, while rejecting foreign neoliberal influences.
KLA will overhaul the current tax system to implement a truly progressive tax policy.
Relief and accountability: This policy will provide tax relief to low-income earners while holding the wealthy and corporations accountable to ensure they actually pay their share toward national development.
Ring-fencing revenue: Specific revenue streams will be ring-fenced and earmarked directly for human development sectors, including education, healthcare, and agriculture.
KLA commits to a housing programme focused on providing shelter for the most vulnerable, including slum-dwellers.
Communal construction: In areas where the state cannot construct houses, residents will be organized into communes, allocated land, and provided materials and tools to build their own homes, using their shared skills collectively.
KLA will ensure comprehensive enforcement of the Constitution’s Bill of Rights. Accountable security: Security organs will be restructured to be fully responsible to the people.
Justice and enforcement: We will empower independent institutions to check abuses and ensure access to justice, while fully enforcing Article 43 of the Constitution, which guarantees economic, cultural, and social rights.
KLA will secure environmental justice through a pro-people approach. Conservation: We will promote conservation models rooted in both indigenous and modern methods, increase forest cover, and restore water towers.
Accountability: KLA will implement pro-people climate adaptation measures and prosecute individuals and corporations that undermine the integrity of the environment.
The KLA will engage in a profound process of decolonization to ‘re-Africanize the African.’
Reclaiming identity: This process aims to empower people to love themselves, understand systems of oppression, elect ideologically grounded leadership, and uproot colonial hangovers.
New worlds: This will involve political and popular education, ultimately aiming to decolonize politics to make it answerable to the sovereign, place key economic sectors under local and collective stewardship, and center culture in the national liberation process.
Kenya is at a unique inflection point where the Left can make significant wins over the coming years and even take the presidency with majorities in every legislative house by 2032.
