Jomo Kenyatta - the true colors of the man

“The Struggle for Freedom And Justice”- Bildad Kaggia This is a section on Johnstone Kamau “Jomo Kenyatta”
This is the man who we consider the founding father…and we were not done with him… we gave power to his incompetent drunkard son.

There were also romours that the mau mau wanted this man dead…some KAU radicals had a plan to assasinate him.

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He he he. Sasa mnataka …

:)Now let us hear from the other side.

hahaha. …

Wacha ningoje vyenye @gachui atasema before ni comment. Hehe … hapo pa kutema mate kwa maji ya ugali nayo ni wagwaan

sina usingizi wakubwa

Kunywa some warm milk, ni dawa ya insomnia.

I slept earlier today…that’s the reason why sina usingizi but thanks anyway

hakuna remedy ingine?,someone like me if I drink fresh milk I get nauseous

Give it to Johnstone Kamau, huyu ni jamaa alikuwa umetoka majuu.

Very interesting but was anything ever corroborated?

Do you mean to say that in over 50 years, no one ever traced the Nigerian lawyer to ask him first hand why he left the case or locate any of the co-accused to confirm what Bildad Kaggia wrote? Dead men tell no tales, most if not all the men cited are not alive today. However I find it difficult to believe that their letter to the Commissioner of Prisons has never surfaced.

When was this book written and published? Like it or not, he will still be the founding father, you cannot reverse history. Being angry at dead men does not change a thing. Ranting and raving about his son isn’t going to change the fact that he is President until 2022.

Who are the mysterious unnamed KAU and Mau Mau who wanted him dead, yet failed? Isn’t that what is called rumour mongering?

I’ll read it. Is it at TBC?

Reminds me of ‘peeling back the mask’ which was authored in bitterness.

Inasemekana Jomo ndio alikuwa mistreated na Ngei. Ngei was a real asshole. Being young and educated and all. Kawaida ya wakamba wakifika.

Also, Bildad Kaggia walikosana na Jomo over land distribution so this sort of story is expected.

And Jomo’s prison photos don’t show a man in good health.Alikuwa amekonda na meno zimechomoka. Eyes hollowed into the sockets. Na alizeeka haraka sana.

Ngei alisumbua mzee karibu alie machozi.

[SIZE=6]How colonial jailers blocked attempts on Kenyatta’s life[/SIZE]
TUESDAY OCTOBER 20 2015

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[li]Records from the then Turkana district commissioner, Mr Leslie Whitehouse, reveal how the prisoners — including five of the now famous Kapenguria Six — had hatched a plot to harm Kenyatta by enlisting the services of a young Mau Mau scout, Kariuki Chotara, who had been transferred to the Lokitaung Prison.[/li][li]Jeremy Murray-Brown’s biography of Kenyatta recounts an incident in 1956 when Kenyatta received Bishop Obadiah Kariuki, one of the first indigenous African bishops of the Anglican Church, who had preached against Mau Mau.[/li][li]Interestingly, while Paul Ngei managed to remain within the Kenyatta administration, he was Mzee’s number one tormentor while they were in jail, according to records.[/li][/ul]
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While serving a jail term in Kapenguria after the colonial government accused him of supporting and leading Mau Mau freedom fighters, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta once escaped an attempt on his life orchestrated by his fellow prisoners unhappy with the special treatment he was receiving.
Records from the then Turkana district commissioner, Mr Leslie Whitehouse, reveal how the prisoners — including five of the now famous Kapenguria Six — had hatched a plot to harm Kenyatta by enlisting the services of a young Mau Mau scout, Kariuki Chotara, who had been transferred to the Lokitaung Prison.
Chotara, then a minor, had been sentenced to a prison term after he was convicted of murder. He was jailed at Manyani Prison but escaped, prompting colonial authorities to send him to Lokitaung. The sentence for murder was death but in Chotara’s case, it was commuted to a jail term because he was underage.
After Kenyatta’s death, Chotara rose through the political ranks to become a powerful Nakuru District Kanu chairman and nominated MP.
In one of his notes, Whitehouse recalled the incident which happened shortly after Kenyatta had met his lawyer, Mr Dennis Pritt.
“After Pritt departed, Mzee was not only ostracised by his fellow convicts but was subjected unceasingly to vituperation and harassment of every kind. The knife attack was the climax,” the colonial administrator wrote.
Whitehouse wrote: “The inquiry which followed recorded that a recent newcomer to the prison, a young man said to be twice or thrice a convicted murderer saved from the death sentence by reason of being under 18 years of age… set upon Mzee with a knife in the prison but he was prevented by a prison warder from carrying out his intention.”

DEATH SENTENCE
The explanation, according to Mr Whitehouse, was that this was an attempt engineered by the other prisoners who knew that Chotara was too young to face a death sentence even if found guilty of killing Kenyatta.
This, however, was not the only source of friction between Kenyatta and the other prisoners.
Jeremy Murray-Brown’s biography of Kenyatta recounts an incident in 1956 when Kenyatta received Bishop Obadiah Kariuki, one of the first indigenous African bishops of the Anglican Church, who had preached against Mau Mau. According to Murray-Brown, Kenyatta, after having private discussions with the bishop, then took him to a larger room where the other prisoners were.
He writes: “(Bildad) Kaggia at once (verbally) attacked him for this (saying) there is no God (and that) Christ is only for Europeans. Kenyatta tried to quieten them. One by one, they (the Mau Mau prisoners) all trooped out of the block, leaving only Kenyatta and (General) China to receive Kariuki’s farewell prayers.”
Before his imprisonment, Kaggia had launched his own sect, Dini ya Kaggia.
While these could have been seen as minor feuds among prisoners, they would, in later years, affect Kenyatta’s relationship with his five co-accused after he ascended to the presidency. It is thus not surprising that he fell out with some of the Kapenguria Six shortly after independence.
The first casualty was Bildad Kaggia, who became the first to be dropped as an assistant minister in the first Kenyatta administration.

MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE
Kaggia continued to criticise the settlement policy of the landless and the acquisition of land by bigwigs in the government even after the fallout.
Achieng Oneko was also detained by Kenyatta in 1969, while Fred Kubai’s political fortunes nose-dived after he lost the Nakuru parliamentary seat in 1974.
Businessman Kung’u Karumba mysteriously disappeared the same year after he went to Uganda to trace his lorry.
Interestingly, while Paul Ngei managed to remain within the Kenyatta administration, he was Mzee’s number one tormentor while they were in jail, according to records.
At independence, Ngei also refused to join Kanu and formed his own Akamba Peoples Party.
In one prison hand-over report dated 1954, the local District Officer, Mr J R M Tennet said: “Kenyatta is old and mellowing. Cooking only aggravates his eczema (a skin disease). There is no hope of getting rid of the young murderer and escape artist, Kariuki Chotara. Ngei remains spokesman”.
It is now known that the British authorities had coached a key witness, Rawson Macharia, to testify against Kenyatta on the promise of a university scholarship and a job. Thus, unlike other convicts, Kenyatta was the only one jailed on the strength of a false witness. Macharia would later admit that he was indeed a fake witness and was jailed for perjury.

NGEI PROTESTS
Although on paper Kenyatta was to serve seven years with hard labour, the colonial authorities — according to records — spared him the hard labour and instead assigned him kitchen duties, to the chagrin of the other prisoners. The 1955 prison report says that “there was no other light work for him to do”.
Ngei formally complained to the prison authorities about the light duties that Kenyatta had been assigned in a letter dated November 25, 1954. At one point, records indicate, Ngei almost pushed Kenyatta into a burning furnace to protest “Kenyatta’s cooking”.
Of the Kapenguria Six, Ngei – known as Prisoner 5/J — was the youngest and the only one with a university degree, which partly explains why he was writing most of the mails. He was also a former East African Standardjournalist.
The letter from Ngei was passed over to Mr J J de Delmege, the DO at Lokitaung, who wrote a covering letter to the district commissioner saying: “Though I send you the letter, I do not think that any action is called for. The kitchen appears to be spotless and I have told all convicts that though Kenyatta will continue to be their cook (there is no other light work for him to do) all specific complaints should be reported at once and will be investigated.
Whitehouse asked the prison authorities to tire the prisoners as a response.
“If they are really tired out at the end of the day as we would like them to be, I fancy there would be less bickering,” said one letter from Whitehouse to the officer in charge of the prison.
Ngei was isolated but that did not stop him from complaining about Kenyatta’s “big headedness”.

Hehe… All these top politicians the world over are the same. They have twisted personalities but they have mastered the art of presenting themselves in good light to the public. After all, politics is the art of perception. A politicians public face is very different from their private one. Some examples follow from around the world…

JFK
JFK was an extreme womanizer whose escapades with women at the time went largely unnoticed since there was no paparazzi at the time and the press tended to not publish a politicians private life. He would bed interns, secretaries on tables in the whitehouse etc. He also had Addison’s disease which made him ill alot of the time. Part of the treatment for this at the time was injections that included testosterone which may explain why he was horny most of the time. He once told an aid “Unless I get a new piece of ass regularly, I get painfull headaches”.

Lyndon Johnson.
Apparently this guy was a bisexual with extremely quirky personalities. He would talk to people while taking a dump with the door to the loo open and whomever he is addressing standing right outside the door watching him take a dump. He apparently used to enjoy the extreme discomfort this would cause to whoever he was talking to. Also, this is how he wanted his shower done:

"The 36th president of the United States reportedly refused to accept staff arguments that outfitting the shower with the demanded features—including one nozzle aimed “directly at the president’s penis”—would require a great deal of plumbing work. “If I can move 10,000 troops in a day, you can certainly fix the bathroom any way I want it,” Johnson told the staff, according to the book. "

Thats not all, he also wanted a nozzle aimed directly at his anus and the nozzles should have the ability to switch from cold to hot in an instant and the nozzle pressures should be extremely high. Talk about a kinky president.

Oh, and it appears he was involded in Kennedy’s assasination. Thus, he pulled off America’s first coup. But thats a story for another day

Churchill.
I still say its a miracle churchill was able to lead Britain to Victory in WW2. This is a guy who was drunk practically all of the time. He would have a glass of whisky with his breakfast pratically every day. I mean this guy was a serious alcoholic. Hitler referred to him as “The British Drunk”. Maybe his drunkenness is what made him utter such inspiring words to the masses. I mean, the guy was high when inspiring the masses!

Raila
We all know of Miguna’s allegations about the corruption that went on in the PM’s office. And this is the same guy who wants to lead us to canaan!

So I always view politicians with a pinch of salt. They know how to present themselves to the masses but what they do behind closed doors is a different story and jomo was no different in this regard.

How was it settled… Or decided that KENYARRA would be the president?

What criteria was used?

Yaani yaani jamaa aliandika kitabu juu ya mashakura.
Bt enyewe K senior had a wicked sense of humour, unatema aje kikohozi na kuosha kichwa na maji ya ugali ??

Allies, not friends

I can believe that story.