Justice & Law Quote by Mwai Kibaki

Hard work and justice: two virtues that sound like bedside morals until Kibaki welds them into state policy. The line is doing the classic work of a head of government speaking to a country that has been shaken - economically, politically, or both - and trying to re-legitimate the everyday grind as a national project. The key verb is "cement": unity isn’t romantic here, it’s infrastructural. He’s imagining solidarity as something poured, set, and hardened to carry weight.

"Justice" placed beside "hard work" is the crucial tell. Kibaki isn’t only asking people to produce more; he’s signaling that production without fairness is a brittle bargain. In many postcolonial states, the appeal to unity often doubles as a request to stop complaining. Kibaki tries to preempt that cynicism by offering justice as the adhesive, implying that grievances - corruption, unequal access, ethnic patronage, state violence - must be addressed if citizens are going to buy back into the social contract.

The phrase "get our country back to production" also carries a quiet rebuke. It presumes a fall from a more functional past (or at least the idea of one) and frames politics as repair work rather than reinvention. That’s Kibaki’s technocratic signature: less liberation poetry, more economic restart button. It’s an invitation to see national healing not in slogans but in factories running, farms yielding, salaries paid - and to accept that unity is not the goal itself, but the condition for stability, investment, and legitimacy.