· This posting was first done on 17th August, 2011.
· Our Founding Father and First President of the Republic of Kenya Mzee Jomo Kenyatta got involved in nationalist politics in the 1920s as Johnstone Kenyatta. Africans wanted to be treated with dignity like human beings. Africans wanted their land, illegally and forcibly, occupied by the British colonialists, back. For starters, they wanted Title Deeds now, simply because no individual appeared to have any legal rights to their own land. Johnstone Kenyatta was by 1928 already deeply involved in politics.
· That year he became the paid General Secretary of Kikuyu Central Association and the Chief Editor of the Kikuyu newspaper Muigwithania. He was first sent to represent the African case, at the Colonial Office in London, on 17th February, 1929. He went to present a petition on behalf of Kenyans. He returned on 24th September, 1930. Johnstone Kenyatta returned to London a second time on 2nd May, 1931.
· He was a Pan-Africanist and was involved in organising the 5th Pan-African Congress, in Manchester, in October 1945. Earlier that year (February, 1945), he had participated in organising the World Trade Union Congress. Other Pan-Africanists included Kwame Nkrumah. He became president of the Kenya Africa Union, on 1st June, 1947; president of KANU, on 28th October, 1961; first PM, on 1st June, 1963 and President of the Republic in December 1964.
· The long and short of that short (summary) of Mzee Jomo Kenyatta’s history: he fought gallantly for Kenya and truly earned his place in the independence and liberation struggle for the freedom of Kenya, and all Kenyans. To be fair to history, he had no equal among his Kenyan contemporaries.
· It is therefore utterly unfair for anybody to state that Mzee Jomo Kenyatta became president because the position was left for him, by Jaramogi. This is part of the strategy to dislocate historical facts; part of the strategy by the PM, to hoodwink the GEMA people, blowing cold and hot, peddling falsehoods and thinly-veiled threats of revenge should they not vote for him.
· Sources told us that before joining the freedom fighters, much later, Jaramogi was busy with the Luo Thrift Trading Company, enlisting Luos of East Africa to contribute funds, with the promise of shareholding in the company. Funds, according to the sources, were generously contributed but no shares were forthcoming. Could the Kisumu Molasses Plant be the latter-day clone of Jaramogi’s 1944 company, the only difference being that only Luos of Kenya are in the present thievery.
· The PM has also said that he said “Kibaki Tosha.” A quick glance at events then: the PM had joined KANU, in March 2001 in the hope of either becoming PM or to become Moi’s anointed heir. This strategy fell on its head. He became confused and could see his political career mortally threatened. He was fighting for survival. There was already a potent force of President Kibaki, Kijana Wamalwa and Charity Ngilu.
· The PM desperately looked for political suitors: he jumped from one politician to the other, finally, almost, reaching an MOU with Simon Nyachae. But Nyachae also joined the Kibaki-Wamalwa-Ngilu winning team.
· In a nutshell, the PM also attended the famous mammoth rally, at Uhuru Park. According to reliable sources, it was by then a foregone fact that Mwai Kibaki was Narc’s presidential candidate but for the sake of protocol, and respecting elders, the African way, it was agreed that the eldest in the high table would announce, formally, to Kenyans the obvious: that Kibaki was the compromise candidate. Uncle Moody Awori was to say “Kibaki Tosha!”
· To everybody’s surprise the PM jumped the gun the moment he got his chance to speak, but they could not imagine that he would use that hijacked proclamation later to confuse Kenyans and seek to gain mileage through that well calculated, trickery and deception. Alluta Continua.
Posted on February 3, 2012
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