President Uhuru Kenyatta addressing the nation during the 2014 Madaraka Day celebrations. 
Kenyans mark 51 years of internal self-rule amid a myriad of challenges facing the country.
The 2014 Madaraka Day celebrations mark the second year of the Jubilee government.
The climax of the celebrations will be a speech by President Uhuru Kenyatta at Nyayo Stadium in Nairobi.
Kenyans started walking early Sunday morning to the venue of the celebrations.
Among other issues that the President is expected to address include insecurity and the rising cost of living.
The country has in the recent past experienced terrorist attacks in major urban areas especially in Nairobi and Mombasa.
TRAVEL ADVISORIES
This has led to the issuing of travel advisories by several European countries to their citizens against travelling to some areas of the country.
This has in turn greatly affected the tourism industry with thousands of hotel workers being laid off following reduced business especially at the Coast.
The downturn in Kenya’s tourism saw the shilling perform poorly against foreign currencies especially the US dollar.
However, the Central Bank of Kenya moved to allay fears that the Kenyan shilling could be on a free fall due to rising insecurity that is a threat to the economy
The President is therefore expected to address himself on how the Jubilee government plans to secure the country against the worrying trend of external aggression which is believed to be mainly led by the Soamlia-based Al-Shabaab militant group.
Since the attack on Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall in 2013, there have been at least 16 other terror related attacks.
JUBILEE PROMISES
President Kenyatta is also expected to address the nation on the progress made in fulfilling the Jubilee election promises.
Key among them is the promise of laptops to class one pupils which is yet to be fulfilled.