GK Saitoti,the internal security minister has said kesho is a public holiday for the purposes of the census. my million unaswered questions are does the kenya constitution (i have never read that damn thing) allow ministers (other than president) to give decree to national (public) holidays? if then,GKS has given a precedence and we may start hearing of national environment day - michuki,land policy day etc etc. secondly,the blunder this intellingesia made is walevi will this evening stream to their joints before heading home for the count. forget about the pub closures directive,the urge to make an extra earning is more than following the law,as is always and only in kenya. anway skerians,lets be responsible for this noble exercise,stand out to be counted and give all support as is necessary. mwana wa kahii. . . .

@Chic20 I thought i saw and heard MK declare the day a Public Holiday at a press conference aired by KTN yesterday? Prof of Mathematics could just have been repeating what his boss had stated and not necessarily declaring it as Public Holiday himself... or not so? Some deals are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.

@ noble & wedz GKS gave this reporting on thursday evening last week,it was aired by several tv stations at 9pm news. mk was reapeating what his minister said,or rather giving the statehouses pronouncements. mwana wa kahii. . . .

Does it matter who declared first?A holiday is a holiday no matter who declared first.The bottomline is that kesho am not coming to work. The Hague...or Local Triburnal ama TJRC.

Saitoti did not declare a holiday but announced/communicated the fact that there would be one. Pls not the difference. This was a simple communication,as the security minister,he must have discussed with the head of state and agreed and was only communicated the same. There is nothing ilegal about what he said. 'You can fool all the people some of the time,and some of the people all the time,but you cannot fool all the people all the time.' Abraham Lincoln.