Emotional Moment as Uhuru Sadly Tosses Soil in Kibaki’s Simple Grave

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Sadness was written all over President Uhuru Kenyatta’s face when he was called by the military to place soil in his predecessor, Mwai Kibaki’s grave.

After throwing soil in the Kibaki’s final resting place, the Head of State stood there for a moment staring at the casket. He looked downcast.

He then walked away and you could tell he was thinking hard about something.

Tossing soil in someone’s grave is the last funeral rite and symbolises return to nature.

While Kibaki’s body was being lowered to the ground, he received a 19-gun salute, an honour given to affirm that he was once the commander of the armed forced. The national anthem was also played.

Interestingly, Kibaki’s grave, just next to that of wife Lucy Kibaki, who died in 2016, did not have any decorations. It was as simple as that of a common man.

Meanwhile, President Kenyatta is the only President who has witnessed the death and burial of all other three Kenya Presidents.

When his father, the founding President died in 1978, Uhuru was a teenager.

Mentored by Kibaki And Moi

Many years later, he occupied the the high office just like his father after being mentored by Kenya’s second President Daniel Arap Moi and his successor Mwai Kibaki.

In the 2002 General Election, Uhuru, who had the support of Moi, ran against Kibaki. He was defeated by a win margin.

In the 2007 bungled election, the current Head of State dropped his bid and threw his weight behind Kibaki. In 2008, he was named deputy Prime Minister following the formation of the grand coalition government.

Kibaki retired in 2013 and handed over power to Uhuru. Uhuru carried the day with the help of Kibaki, who pulled strings behind the scenes.

Moi succumbed to an illness in February 2019.

We won’t be wrong to say Uhuru has buried his father and his two godfathers.

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