[PHOTOS] Kibicho inspects Uhuru Gardens ahead of Jamhuri Day celebrations

Interior PS Karanja Kibicho on Tuesday inspected the newly built Uhuru Gardens which is expected to host this year’s Jamhuri Day celebrations.

Kibicho led a team of government officials to check the progress of the renovations and said they are ready to host the event.

The park will host 11,000 invited guests on December 12.

President Uhuru Kenyatta will preside over the event. He will unveil a museum in the park.

Kibicho said rehearsals will start this week and will include trooping of the colours by the Kenya Defence Forces.

He said a team will meet next week to decide if there will be parallel celebrations in the counties.

Public events have largely been scaled down as a Covid-19 prevention measure.

Edited by CM

According to the military tradition, the trooping of the colours ceremony is one of the symbolic trust given to a unit/base. Such events are marked on Jamhuri Day.

Normally a presidential colour is trooped when a unit or base performs in a national ceremony or when the commander-in-chief or a foreign head of state is honoured with a guard of honour.

During trooping of the colours, the colours are marched in under escort of the colour party to the edge of the parade.

It is ceremoniously received by the unit/regimental/base Sergeant Major who hands it over to the colour officers.

The colour officer is of the rank of a lieutenant and commands the colour party.

The refurbishment of the gardens started in August last year.

President Kenyatta has visited regularly to check the progress.