President William Ruto was set to preside over the inaugural of Utamaduni Day celebrations at Bomas of Kenya in Nairobi. Moi Day was dropped from the list of Kenyan national holidays in August 2010 after the adoption of the new Constitution. In 2017, a lawyer named Gregory Nyauchi filed an appeal challenging the removal of Moi Day as a public holiday. “One of these laws is the Public Holidays Act that Parliament amended during Moi’s time to give him his day. On October 8, 2018, Fred Matiang’i, then Interior Cabinet Secretary, proclaimed the reinstatement of Moi Day as a public holiday.

Source: Daily Nation October 10, 2023 12:44 UTC