Welcome to our live coverage of this year's Labour Day celebrations.
1:50 pm: Guests leave Uhuru Park after the CS's announcement.
1:48 pm: Labour Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani announces 5 percent increase in minimum wage, Atwoli's Cotu was pushing for 18 percent increment.
1:30 pm: Raila Odinga says NASA has abandoned the National Resistance Movement that was formed to push for the boycott against Safaricom, Brookside, Bidco, and Haco products.
12:40 pm: COTU Secretary General Francis Atwoli delivers his speech, warns the government against barring COTU from NHIF.
12:26 pm: Wilson Sossion hails the handshake between Raila Odinga and Uhuru Kenyatta.
12:21 pm: Nairobi Senator Johnson Sakaja addresses the crowd upon invitation by Governor Sonko, calls on youths to be included in the list of people tasked to steer the national reconciliation agenda.
12:00 pm: Nairobi Governor Mike Mbuvi Sonko delivers his Labour Day speech, vows to improve Nairobi.
11:28 am: Workers from various sectors display their tools of work before the official speeches begin.
10: 48 am: Universities Academic Staff Union (Uasu)'s Muiga Rugara says the union is not going to participate in today's Labour Day celebrations because they have nothing to celebrate.
10:32 am: Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko and Senator Johnson Sakaja arrive at Uhuru Park for the 53rd Labour Day celebrations.
Raila arrives at Uhuru Park
10:15 am: National Super Alliance (Nasa) leader Raila Odinga has arrived at Uhuru Park, Nairobi for the celebrations.
Also present are Musalia Mudavadi, Cotu (K) Secretary General Francis Atwoli, Nominated MP Wilson Sossion, Labour Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani, Embakasi East MP Babu Owino, among other leaders.