This archive report was first published on 8 October 2019.
On October 8, 2019, Interior CS Fred Matiang'i gazetted Thursday, October 10, as a public holiday to mark Moi Day, a celebration previously removed from the list of national holidays following the promulgation of the Constitution in 2010.
According to a November 6, 2017, judgment by Justice George Odunga, the celebration of Moi Day as a public holiday did not contravene the Constitution. Odunga ruled that failure to observe the day would be an illegality and breach of the Public Holidays Act.
“I hereby grant a declaration that omission to have the 10th day of October observed as a public holiday is an illegality,” Odunga stated. “I further declare that unless Parliament amends the Act or the minister substitutes for another date, October 10 shall, in each year, continue being a public holiday,” he added.
