Kenya | Jamhuri Jubilation

Embassy Network | 12th April 2017

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

 

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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