President Uhuru Kenyatta will on Thursday lead the nation in commemorating 41st anniversary since the death of Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, the founding father of the nation.
Usually, the event will start with a church service where various leaders will issue speeches before proceeding to Parliament building to lay wreath on Mzee's grave.
During a similar occasion 11 years ago, former press secretary to retired President Daniel Moi, Mr Lee Njiru, issued a statement on the last hours of Mzee Jomo Kenyatta.
At that time, Lee recalled, Mzee was in Mombasa where he was attending to various functions. Mr Njiru was an information officer in Office of the President and had worked for just 2 years.
In his statement, Njiru accused aides of Mzee Kenyatta for allegedly abandoning him and subsequently advance their personal interests.
At that time, he added, Kenyatta had become incoherent, lost memory and could not even sign his own name. But despite the disturbing turn of events, his handlers reportedly never cared.
"Kenyatta did not have a classmate and no one knew when he was born. The people around him were moving around this country like rogue elephants let loose on a maize plantation.”
He added: “He was more in the company of wolves and hyenas than he was in the company of his loving family. Kenyatta would be in Nakuru or Mombasa for up to two months and it was up to the State to take care of him... I was there every day, everywhere as part of my job and it would be unfair for me not to release this information.”
While at Msambweni a day to his death, Kenyatta collapsed in a toilet but was tasked the following day to attend to functions. Also, he at one point failed to access his room.
During the material day, a visibly frail Mzee could not walk upstairs and asked for a seat. It's at this time that doctors were called to help him.
A month earlier, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta had referred to Mbiyu Koinange, his brother-in-law and powerful minister for State as his father at Nakuru State House.
The octogenarian died peacefully on 22nd August in his sleep at Mombasa. Daniel Moi took over and ruled the country for 24 years before losing to Mwai Kibaki.
President Uhuru Kenyatta, who is the forth president, is the son to Mzee Jomo Kenyatta. He will retire in 2022 having been elected for the second term.