President Uhuru Kenyatta has issued four orders that should be adhered to after the passing on of former President Daniel Arap Moi.
Mzee Moi who led Kenya between 1978 and 2002 died on Monday night at Nairobi Hospital where he had been hospitalized since last year October.
President Kenyatta’s orders come in the honor of the life and times of the late Mzee Moi.
Under the authority vested in him as the president of the Republic of Kenya and the Commander-in-Chief of the Kenya Defence Forces, President Kenyatta has ordered and directed the following;
IN HONOUR OF THE LIFE AND TIMES of the Late Great Mzee Daniel Toroitich Arap Moi, and on behalf of a grateful Nation forever indebted to our deceased Second President for all his many years of steadfast public service, I, UHURU KENYATTA, under the authority vested in me as the President of The Republic of Kenya and the Commander in Chief of the Kenya Defence Forces, do
hereby ORDER and DIRECT:
I. THAT in the testimony of the respect in which the memory of the Late Daniel Toroitich Arap Moi is held, the nation will observe a period of national mourning from today until the day of his funeral;
II. THAT the Late Daniel Toroitich Arap Moi shall be accorded a State Funeral, with all appropriate Civilian and Full Military Honours being rendered and observed;
III. THAT as an expression of public sorrow the Flag of the Republic of Kenya shall be flown at half-mast at State House, State Lodges, all Public Buildings and Public Grounds, all Military Bases, Posts, and Stations, on all Naval Vessels of the Republic of Kenya, and however elsewhere throughout the Republic of Kenya; from dawn on 4th February 2020 Until sunset on the day of the burial; and
iV. THAT our national flag shall be flown at half-mast for the same length of time at all High Commissions, Embassies, Consulates, Diplomatic Offices and other facilities of the Republic of Kenya abroad.
