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Kenyans View Body of Former President Lying in State as Mourning Period
Continues

Rael Ombuor

   NAIROBI, KENYA - Kenyans lined up Saturday morning in Nairobi's streets
   to view the body of the country's late President Daniel Toroitich arap
   Moi, which is lying in state at Parliament Buildings in the Kenyan
   capital. Moi died Tuesday while receiving treatment at a Nairobi
   hospital. As the national mourning period declared Tuesday by President
   Uhuru Kenyatta continues until Moi's burial Wednesday, the death of
   Kenya's second president spurs mixed reactions from Kenyans.

   Throngs of Kenyans Saturday morning lined Nairobi streets waiting to
   enter Kenya's Parliament Buildings to view the body of the country's
   second president, Daniel arap Moi, who died Tuesday at the age of 95.
   President Uhuru Kenyatta, in the early hours of Saturday, before
   heading to Parliament, eulogized the former president in a live
   televised broadcast from State House Nairobi, his official residence.

   "Today as the solemn procession of the late President Moi's remains
   proceeds to the streets of our nation's capital, to lie in state at
   Parliament Buildings, we commence the final journey of a great son of
   Kenya, a cherished brother, a loving father, a mentor to many, a father
   of our nation, a champion of pan-Africanism, and the second president
   of the republic of Kenya," Kenyatta said.

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