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How Kenyatta's 1978 State funeral differed from Moi

The Military March along Kenyatta avenue on Tuesday, February 11, 2020, as the body of the former President Daniel Arap Moi was removed from State House, Nairobi for a requiem mass at the Nyayo National Stadium. [Collins Kweyu, Standard]

Kenya’s second president, Daniel Arap Moi was buried on Wednesday in a military ceremony that drew parallels with the burial of the country’s first president, Jomo Kenyatta, in August 1978.

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