Former President Mwai Kibaki will be laid to rest on April 30th at his home in Othaya, Nyeri County.
Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i, who was accompanied by Kibaki’s family members, made the announcement on Saturday.
Kibaki will be accorded a State funeral, with full military honors and protocols being rendered and observed. The State funeral will be held at Nyayo Stadium on April 29th.
Matiang’i said the former president’s body will lie in state at the National Assembly for three days, from Monday to Wednesday.
Members of the diplomatic corps will be allowed to visit the family at Kibaki’s office in Nyari, Nairobi.
The government will also set up a facility at the Othaya CDF office for members of the public to pay their condolences and fill the condolence book.
On Friday, the government formed a National Funeral Steering Committee to organize Kibaki’s burial.
Kibaki, who served as Kenya’s third president between 2002 and 2013, passed away on Friday at the age of 90.
President Kenyatta directed that the country observes a period of national mourning until sunset on the day Kibaki will be interred.
He ordered that the flag of Kenya be flown at half-mast across the country and all Kenyan diplomatic missions abroad during the period of mourning.
The Deputy President, the Chief Justice, Cabinet Secretaries, the Speaker of the National Assembly, the Speaker of the Senate, Kenya’s diplomats abroad, and anyone else authorized by law, shall not to fly the national flag on their official motorcade from Friday until sunset on the day Kibaki will be buried.
Kibaki leaves behind four children; Judy Wanjiku, Jimmy Kibaki, David Kagai, and Tony Githinji. His wife Lucy died in April 2016.
