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President Uhuru Kenyatta today presented the Presidential Colour and Regimental Colour to the 17th Battalion of Kenya Rifles during the Jamhuri Day celebrations at the Nyayo National Stadium in Nairobi on Wednesday.
All infantry units and bases (Kenya Air Force and Kenya Navy) are presented with both presidential and regimental colours.
The presidential colour is trooped when a unit or base performs a national ceremony in which the Commander in Chief is honoured with a guard of honour.
The regimental colour is presented to a unit or base at the same time with presidential colour.
It is displayed whenever the unit or base performs a ceremony for General Officers who are accorded Half Guard parades during visits.
The 17th Battalion of the Kenya Rifles was born in 2009 as a unit in the Kenya Army. The unit colour was approved to be purple in 2010.
When a unit/base is designated to troop its colour, it becomes an honour to the regiment or base as it is able to showcase its colours in a ceremony known as Trooping Of The Colour.
"The Honour of Trooping of the Colours is a very significant event for a unit or base and it is recorded in the unit's history," KDF posted on Twitter Tuesday evening.
The presidential colour is trooped on special days such as Jamhuri Day.