Man who planted LGBTQ flag on the peak of Mt. Kenya vows to repeat the act
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Man who planted LGBTQ flag on the peak of Mt. Kenya vows to repeat after it was removed by Kikuyu elders
Man who planted LGBTQ flag on the peak of Mt. Kenya vows to repeat after it was removed by Kikuyu elders.
An individual who placed the LGBTQ rainbow flag atop Mount Kenya, which was later removed, has promised to do it again as a show of defiance.
Speaking on Twitter, @juelz_loverl, who together with a friend named Alex planted the original flag in 2019, declared that he would do it again this year and called the act of taking it down “nonsense.”
“In 2019 we (Alex and I) put the (LGBTQ) flag up on Mt. Kenya. All this nonsense of it being taken down, I’ve decided 2023 I am going back up Mt. Kenya to put up the flag!” he tweeted.
Over the weekend, a group of Kikuyu traditionalists destroyed the flag alleged to represent the LGBTQ community.
The group, under the banner of Booi wa Kirira Kia Mugikuyu, loosely translated to ‘the gathering for Kikuyu culture’, had been raising money for a month in order to climb the mountain and take down the flag.
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On Friday, April 7, a group of around ten climbers headed up the mountain, and they returned on Sunday, April 9, carrying the said flag that was allegedly set ablaze in Naromoru, Kieni East Sub-county, Nyeri County.
The event was followed up by cleansing rites by Kikuyu elders.
They said that ashes from the burnt flag would be thrown into the river that flows to the Indian Ocean.
According to Kikuyu culture, Mt Kenya is the abode of Mwenenyaga, their deity. Kikuyu traditionalists pray facing the mountain.
“It is an affront to Gikuyu spirituality, for members of this community to desecrate our Supreme Altar by raising their flag on Kīrīnyaga (Mt Kenya),” said Kimani Charagu, a founding member of Booi wa Kirira.
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