The outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta has declared four days of national mourning to honor the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
Uhuru made the announcement in the ‘Presidential Pronouncement’ spirit.
The mourning period is to start on Friday evening, 9 September until Monday, September 12,2022.
The Burmingham Palace yesterday announced the death of the Queen.
In his statement, Uhuru said the Country will be joining the world in mourning the Queen who was the most iconic figure of the 20th and 21st centuries.
“As the world mourns the passing of the most iconic figure of the 20th and 21st centuries, our deepest sympathy and condolences go out to His Majesty King Charles III and the rest of the Royal Family, the Government and People of the United Kingdom, the governments and people of the Commonwealth nations over which Her Late Majesty reigned over, and all the people of the world mourning this immeasurable loss,” he stated.
The statement went ahead to highlight the Queen’s deep connection with Kenya, since her visit as a princess where he left the country as a Queen.
‘The People of Kenya have always had a fondness for the magnificent and graceful twenty-five-year-old royal who visited our country as a princess and left it as Queen. It was thus with profound sadness and immeasurable grief that Kenya received the news of her passing
“Throughout her reign, Her Majesty was a close friend of Kenya and the lifeblood of the Commonwealth. Her 70-year reign covered the pre-independence era, the granting of self-governance, the Cold War, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and all the other seminal events leading to the present day.” read the statement in part.
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Uhuru further instructed that the country’s flag be at half-mast in all Kenyan Diplomatic Missions, public grounds, stations, posts, Military bases, and Naval bases.
“In all that, as governments rose and fell, new nations were born, and the geopolitical sands shifted back and forth; Queen Elizabeth II remained our one constant and an unshakeable rock of dedication to duty, grace, sacrifice, public service, and the commitment to God, Country, and Family,”
he stated.
Prince Charles III will be the next King.