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.
He tweeted that he has decided 2023, he is going back up Mt. Kenya to put up the flag.
In 2019 we (Alex and I) put the 🌈 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! #nitarudishaflag #lgbt #mtkenya #iwillputitback pic.twitter.com/fZBLCI038w
— TheFreeSpirit (@Juelz_Loverl) April 12, 2023
Over the weekend, A group of Kikuyu traditionalists smashed a flag allegedly representing the LGBTQ community and erected it at the summit of Mt Kenya in 2019.
Did you read this?
Under the title of Booi wa Kirira Kia Mugikuyu, loosely translated as "the gathering for Kikuyu culture," the organization has amassed cash for the last month to ascend the mountain and remove the flag said to symbolize the LGBTQ community.
They said the flag's ashes would be thrown into a river that flows toward the Indian Ocean. The group asserts that placing the flag, purportedly symbolizing the LGBTQ community, on Mount Kenya violated a sacred Kikuyu site.
According to Kikuyu tradition, Mwenenyaga, the god of the Kikuyu people, resides on Mount Kenya. Traditional Kikuyu worshippers face the mountain with their backs.
