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Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki has announced that Friday, April 21, 2023, will be a public holiday.

Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki has announced that Friday, April 21, 2023, will be a public holiday.

In a gazette notice on Wednesday, April 19, Kindiki stated that the holiday would allow Muslims to celebrate Idd-ul-Fitr.

“It is notified for the general information of the public that the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administrations, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(1) of the Public Holiday’s Act, declares Friday, April 21st, 2023, shall be a public holiday to mark Idd-ul-Fitr,” the notice read.

File image of CS Kindiki

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The Idd-ul-Fitr festival is an important religious holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide that marks the end of the holy month of Ramadhan. The holiday celebrates the end of the 29 or 30 days of dawn-to-dusk fasting during the Ramadhan period.

Muslims believe that it was during the month of Ramadhan that the text of the Qur'an was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad.

They gather in mosques or open places and offer two units of prayer called "Rakat". The prayers are followed by a sermon whereby an Imam asks for peace mercy and forgiveness for everybody across the world.