196 Constitution of Kenya, 2010 [Subsidiary] SECOND SCHEDULE RULES GOVERNING THE COMMEMORATIVE AWARD 1. The medal shall be known as "The Linda Nchi Campaign Medal" (hereinafter referred to as "the medal"). 2. The medal shall consist of a cupro-nickel finishing polished and circular in design measuring 36 millimetres in diameters bearing an insignia of the head and bust image if the President of the Republic of Kenya at the centre surrounded by the inscriptions "H.E. HON. MWAI KIBAKI" and the "PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF KENYA" on the observe and on the reverse it shall depict a lion holding a spear surmounted on the map of Kenya in its background surrounded with the inscriptions "REPUBLIC OF KENYA" and "LINDA NCHI CAMPAIGN MEDAL". The medal is suspended from a bead and on a ring. The ring is attached to a ribbon, 32 millimetres in width and on 50 millimetres in length. On the ribbon bar are golden stripes at each end of 35 millimetres and two small stripes of green colour separated in the middle by a thin white stripe at the centre measuring 4 millimetres. 3. The medal shall be awarded to all ranks of the Kenya Army, the Kenya Air Force, the Kenya Navy and the National Police Service who have served for at least thirty days, not necessarily consecutively, in Operation Linda Nchi, an operation against the Al-Shabaab in the operation area. 4. For the purpose of this proclamation— (a)"Operation Area", means the territory of the Republic of Somalia including its territorial seas and the exclusive economic zone; and (b)"serving in an operation area" means either being stationed in the Operation Area or accompanying or escorting a convoy or carrying out operational flights or operational maritime manoeuvres into the Operation Area. 5. Notwithstanding paragraph 3, the medal shall be awarded to— (a) all ranks of the Kenya Defence forces who participated or assisted in the planning of the operations against Al Shabaab and in the command and control of the Kenya Defence Forces during the operation; and (b) the aircrew of all ranks who flew sorties or missions during the operation. 6. The medal may be awarded posthumously to a deceased officer and it shall not be mandatory that the officer should have served for at least thirty cumulative days in the Operation Area before the date of death, provided that the proximate cause of death arose in the Operation Area. 7. The officer to whom authority has been delegated for the approval of the award of the medal shall maintain records of the names of those to whom,