President William Ruto has defended his State of the Nation address, saying it incorporated key projects aimed at addressing the challenges facing Kenyans.

Speaking in Olopirik village in Narok West President Ruto assured that the Government-Owned Enterprises Bill, 2025, which he signed on Friday, will lay a foundation for installing the Sovereign Wealth Fund and the National Infrastructure Fund to address key fiscal challenges in 2026.

"Our plan is not about the next election it is about the next generation. Now we have the legal framework. We are going to move with speed so that we form these funds and enterprises that are required and we start implementing the programmes next year," he noted.

Ruto also slammed politicians who took advantage of the Mau forest eviction in Narok County to politicize the evictees' plight, saying his government will permanently end the existing challenges and in other contentious areas.

"Because it was marred with politics, they never titled it and fenced it. We have solved all of that now so that politics will end and we focus on planning other things. I have also released almost Ksh.2 billion for the allocation of almost 10,000 acres, we will give you title deeds and move forward."

The Mau evictions have historically been a sensitive and divisive issue. 

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Thousands of families were forced out in successive government operations, many left landless and dependent on relatives or well-wishers. 

The crisis has frequently been used as a political bargaining chip, with leaders making contradictory promises of resettlement in the forest or allocation of land elsewhere.

The government moved to capture and verify all those affected after President Ruto pledged on May 7, during a development tour of Narok South, to resettle them.

Over 14,000 people are reported to have been successfully vetted, with authorities insisting that only genuine victims were included to lock out impostors.

Meanwhile, the government is making efforts to restore 33,000 hectares of the forest and has even fenced it to tame encroachers.

In the new plan, the President said every year the government will restore over 3,000 hectares (7,413.15 acres) so that in 10 years, the 33,000 hectares (81,544.65 acres) will be fully restored.