Kenya | Jamhuri Jubilation
The High Commissioner for Kenya Mr Lazarus Amayo and Lord Chidgey, co-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Africa toast Kenya’s Jamhuri Day
African heads of mission (from left): Mozambique, Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda, Swaziland, Cote d;Ivoire, Zambia, Gabon and South Sudan
The Ambassador of Kuwait and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps Mr Khald Al Duwaisan with High Commissioner Amayo and Mrs Nelly Amayo
High Commissioner Amayo, Mrs Nelly Amayo and Defence Adviser Col Peter Muteti welcome the Commonwealth Secretary General Baroness Patricia Scotland
Margaret Lesuuda (Kenya) with Dr Josephine Ojiambo (Commonwealth Secretariat)
Heads of Mission Spouses
The High Commissioner for South Africa Obed Mlaba and High Commissioner Amayo
The Byron Consort Choir of Harrow School sang the anthems in English and Kiswahili beautifully
The Ambassador of Guatemala Mr Acisclo Valladares Molina, the Ambassador of Slovenia Mr Tadej Rupel and the Ambassador of Chile Mr Rolando Drago
The Ambassador of Belarus Mr Sergei F Aleinik and High Commissioner Amayo
Senior High Commissioner the High Commissioner for Botwsana Mr Roy Blackbeard with High Commissioner Amayo and Mrs Nelly Amayo
The Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps Mr Alistair Harrison congratulates High Commissioner Amayo and Mrs Nelly Amayo
The High Commissioner for Papua New Guinea Mrs Winnie Kiap, the High Commissioner for Cyprus Mr Euripides Evriviades, Mrs Nelly Amayo and Defence Adviser Col Peter Muteti
Mrs Mary Mphonda, the High Commissioner for Malawi Mr Kena Mphonda, High Commissioner Amayo and Mrs Nelly Amayo
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Jamhuri jubilation
Diplomats joined with parliamentarians and the Kenyan diaspora to celebrate Kenya’s 53rd Jamhuri Day with High Commissioner Lazarus Amayo.
In 1963 the UK “lost a colony but gained a friend” said High Commissioner Amayo, adding that the UK was Kenya’s largest trading partner outside Africa, the largest cumulative investor from Europe, the largest source of tourism and a partner in peace and security.
“That is why we consider ourselves stakeholders when Brexit is being discussed because what affects UK also affects us,” he said.
Echoing these sentiments, Lord Chidgey, Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Africa, said that because of Brexit, Britain needed “more than ever to cultivate African countries of the Commonwealth, of which Kenya is a leading part…While the US is our ally and Europe is our trading partner, the Commonwealth is our family.”
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