Nairobi, Oct. 20 -- President William Ruto is expected to fete at least 142 Kenyan heroes and heroines during this year's Mashujaa Day being celebrated in Kwale County on Sunday, October 20, 2024, after a local foundation failed to secure an order to bar their decoration.

Safiri Salama Preservation Foundation had filed a case in court seeking to stop the naming of at least 130 heroes during the celebrations.

In its suit where it listed the National Heroes Council and the Attorney General as the respondents, the Foundation argued that numerous "ordinary folks" who are "largely nondescript" were on the list of honour.

But the Ministry of Gender, Culture, the Arts and Heritage said the critique had been raised after the two-week time fram...