Chaotic crowds deny Raila body chance to be immortalised in parliament archives

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Lying-in-State in the UK, where Kenya borrowed the tradition from, is given to the sovereign as head of state, the current or past Queen Consort and sometimes former Prime Ministers.
56% : Lying-in-State describes the formal occasion in which a coffin is placed on view to allow the public to pay their respects to the deceased before the funeral ceremony.
50% : Military police on Thursday morning were forced to dismantle and relocate the lying-in-state platform that had been set up to receive the body of Raila.
50% : Initially, the burial planning committee had announced that Raila's body would lie in state at Parliament for public viewing before being returned to Lee Funeral Home for preservation.
49% : It was only befitting that his body lie in state and be captured in parliament for archiving," Muturi added.
46% : Due to security concerns and logistical challenges, planners cancelled the viewing at Parliament, which traditionally accords honours to fallen heads of state.
42% : The chaotic and rowdy crowds around Nairobi have denied ODM leader Raila Odinga's body the last respect of lying in state in the country's parliament buildings.
37% : However, the chaotic scenes witnessed in Parliament, even before the body left the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA), have ensured Raila's body lying in state in the country's Legislative building will never be in Kenya's archives.

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