Sources: Kenya Broadcasting Corporation and Kenya public holidays. The Government of Kenya has finally gazetted the new public holiday of Id-ul-Hajj (see our post of November 6), for Wednesday, December 19, 2007.Currently the holiday is only gazetted for 2007, but government spokesperson, Dr. Alfred Mutua, is quoted as saying that the government will be presenting an amendment to the Public Holiday Act to the next parliament so as to make it a permanent public holiday.
This, of course, unless President Mwai Kibaki loses the December 27 elections to former cabinet minister, Mr Raila Odinga, who is leading in the polls and has for his part promised a 2-day public holiday on January 2-3, 2008 (see our post of November 5).
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