William Ruto’s official presidential flag will feature a green colour, K24 Digital has established.
The President-elect, who will be inaugurated tomorrow, September 13, was fully involved in the design process of the flag popularly known as the presidential standard.
The flag used as a symbol of the Head of State will be unveiled by the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) during the swearing-in ceremony.
It will be hoisted alongside the national flag wherever the President is and pulled down as soon as he leaves.
The flag also contains other details which are yet to be disclosed by Ruto’s handlers.
However, the flag will contain two crossed spears and a shield bearing the colours of the national flag.
Ruto, just like his four predecessors, will want the flag customized to his liking.
“Ordinarily, the KDF would ask the incoming president about his design preference, touching on the colour and any other customizations he would prefer. Remember, he is the Head of State of the entire country and this is not about his party,” Statecraft and security strategist Mumo Nzau said.
Ruto’s flag to feature wheelbarrow?
Usually, the President has the final say on the symbol to appear on the flag. It remains to be seen whether the wheelbarrow symbol will feature in Ruto’s flag as has been the case with the men who came before him. The wheelbarrow is the symbol of the President-elect’s United Democratic Alliance (UDA) party.
“The presidential Standard will definitely have a wheelbarrow on it,” an official close to Ruto said, “that is the true symbol of Ruto’s bottom-up economic model.”
Outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta settled for a Standard similar to that of his father the late Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, blue.
Unlike the country’s founding father, who went for a yellow cockerel that was the Kenya African National Union (KANU)’s party symbol, Uhuru settled on a dove, the symbol of his TNA party.
Notably, President Daniel Arap Moi, who succeeded Kenyatta, settled for green colour with a red cockerel. Moi’s successor the late President Mwai Kibaki went for white with two olive branches as his symbol.
