PREAMBLE

• We, the people of Kenya –

• ACKNOWLEGING the supremacy of the Almighty God of all creation:

• HONOURING those who heroically struggled to bring freedom and justice to our land:

• PROUD of our ethnic, cultural and religious diversity, and determination to live in peace and unity as one indivisible sovereign nation:

• RESPECTFUL of the environment, which is our heritage, and determined to sustain it for the benefit of future generations:

• COMMITTED to nurturing and protecting the well-being of the individual, the family, communities and the nation:

• RECOGNISING the aspirations of all Kenyans for a government based on essential values of human rights, equality, freedom, democracy, social justice and the rule of law:

• EXERCISING our sovereign and inalienable right to determine the form of governance of our country and having participated fully in the making of this Constitution:

• ADOPT, ENACT and give this Constitution to ourselves and our future generations.