Former First Lady Mama Ngina Kenyatta with her son, President Uhuru Kenyatta, during a past event. [Photo: the-star.co.ke]
Kenyans need to accept the recent Supreme Court ruling so that the country can forge ahead together, Mama Ngina Kenyatta has said.
The former First Lady said following the upholding of President Uhuru Kenyatta's re-election by the top court, it was time to heal the nation.
"It has been a difficult electioneering period that has left us perhaps more deeply divided than we have ever been. It is time to reconcile and move the country forward," she said on Friday.
Mama Ngina, the wife of the Kenya's founding President Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, noted the prolonged tension and uncertainty have made the economy to slow down, with the poorest hit hardest.
"Time has come for you to return to your farms and businesses and work hard. We will only rebuild our country if we join hands and work together," she added.
President Uhuru Kenyatta's mother was speaking during the burial Elizabeth Gathoni Koinange in Kiambaa, Kiambu County.
Gathoni was the fifth wife of former colonial chief Mbiyu Wa Koinange. She died at the age of 117.