The late Mzee Jomo Kenyatta. Like a ship sailing away in a dark, misty night, the commemoration of Jomo Kenyatta yesterday, the nation's founding President, passed without pomp. During the last commemoration ceremony in 2019, President Uhuru Kenyatta announced that the Kenyatta family had opted to discontinue the elaborate public commemoration of the event, in favour of a private event. ALSO READ: Inside Mzee Jomo Kenyatta’s mausoleum“I remember this event one early morning 41 years ago... To some of us, it looked like it was the end of the world because we couldn’t imagine life without Mzee Jomo Kenyatta. Mzee Kenyatta died on August 22, 1978, after suffering a heart attack at State House in Mombasa.

Source: Standard Digital August 23, 2020 06:11 UTC