Anyone who was at Uhuru Park this on Wednesday morning may have witnessed a mass funeral for up to 221 Members of Parliamen only that the service didn’t actually include the real MPs. Instead, it was a mock state-funeral held for the country’s MPs accompanied with all the finer details that make up a real funeral, from an orchestra, to 221 coffins!
The arrangements were made by a group of Kenyans, including civil society and graffiti artists. Their aim was to make a mockery of the MP’s who recently demanded that they be given state funerals as part of their retirement benefits package a request that was eventually rejected by President Mwai Kibaki.
The group’s message to Kenyans was: vote wisely come March the 4th, and rid the country of greedy parliamentarians. The group is set to march to Parliament after the mock funeral.
Anyone who was at Uhuru Park this on Wednesday morning may have witnessed a mass funeral for up to 221 Members of Parliamen only that the service didn’t actually include the real MPs. Instead, it was a mock state-funeral held for the country’s MPs accompanied with all the finer details that make up a real funeral, from an orchestra, to 221 coffins!
The arrangements were made by a group of Kenyans, including civil society and graffiti artists. Their aim was to make a mockery of the MP’s who recently demanded that they be given state funerals as part of their retirement benefits package a request that was eventually rejected by President Mwai Kibaki.
The group’s message to Kenyans was: vote wisely come March the 4th, and rid the country of greedy parliamentarians. The group is set to march to Parliament after the mock funeral.
Anyone who was at Uhuru Park this on Wednesday morning may have witnessed a mass funeral for up to 221 Members of Parliamen only that the service didn’t actually include the real MPs. Instead, it was a mock state-funeral held for the country’s MPs accompanied with all the finer details that make up a real funeral, from an orchestra, to 221 coffins!
The arrangements were made by a group of Kenyans, including civil society and graffiti artists. Their aim was to make a mockery of the MP’s who recently demanded that they be given state funerals as part of their retirement benefits package a request that was eventually rejected by President Mwai Kibaki.
The group’s message to Kenyans was: vote wisely come March the 4th, and rid the country of greedy parliamentarians. The group is set to march to Parliament after the mock funeral.
