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Pio Gama Pinto (Independent Kenya’s first martyr): http://www.goacom.com/culture/biographies/gamapinto/#gen
Argwings-Kodhek:
It is of interest to note that history has now indicated that the death of C.M.G. Argwings-Kodhek earlier in 1969, attributed to a road accident, may not have been such. An exhumation the body of this once powerful minister, who was also a close confidant of Kenyatta’s, suggested that his death was actually the result of a gun shot fired from a police-issued rifle. Many close to the family actually believe that this was President Kenyatta’s first political assassination. Closely held family records indicate that former cabinet minister Paul Ngei actually identified the police vehicle that carried the assassins to the ambush point on Hurlingham Road (now Argwings-Kodhek Road). The vehicle in question was part of Vice-President Moi’s Vice-Presidential Escort detail. The testimony of former cabinet minister Andrew Omanga, then C.M.G.’s Permanent Secretary indicate that when Omanga met him lying in the road shortly after the ‘accident’ C.M.G. stated that he had a ‘shock’ and that he heard a ‘gun shot’. Formerly powerful Attorney-General Charles Njonjo confirmed as C.M.G. lay dying the next morning that the ‘wounds are consistent with gun shot wounds’. It is commonly known that Kenyatta, frustrated with Oginga Odinga, had already notified Argwings-Kodhek that he was going to be appointed Vice-President — a position C.M.G. had turned down and suggested that it be given to Moi, instead of Mboya — to become the first African to join the colonial Legislative Council.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Mboya
Tom Mboya: http://www.afroarticles.com/article-dashboard/Article/Thomas-Joseph-Odhiambo-Mboya-s-murder—the-return-of-one-party-State/62356
Tom Mboya Funeral: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NghXDf2tZo
Cabral Pinto: The Spirit of J.M. Kariuki Cries for Justice: http://kenyapolitical.blogspot.com/2009/03/cabral-pinto-spirit-of-jm-kariuki-cries.html
Some noted political assassinations:
Although Kenyatta did not instigate ethnic clashes, he targeted eminent persons from ethnic groups that he felt were a threat to his leadership. Many people were assassinated including Pio Gama Pinto (Kenyan Indian), JM Kariuki (Kikuyu) Tom Mboya, D.O Makasembo, Arwgings Kodhek (all Luo) Ronald Ngala (Mijikenda of Coast), among others.
http://pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/46094
Land ownership:
The extended Kenyatta family alone owns an estimated 500,000 acres approximately the size of Nyanza Province according to estimates by independent surveyors and
Ministry of Lands officials who spoke on condition of anonymity.
http://blog.marsgroupkenya.org/?p=92
An article from Duncan Ndegwa’s book, “Kenyatta’s Struggles”:
http://www.propertykenya.com/news/443872-insiders-view-of-jomo-kenyatta—president-farmer-and-family-man.php
Hi,
Though i’m ‘new’ to you all, however, i’d humbly like to hereby express my views on the subject simply cause there really is a need for all to thoroughly do our homework proper!!
Having said that, let me assure fellow Kenyans in the diaspora that most of what really happened and is being said isn’t th ‘Gospel Truth’ per se.
Please, let us all study the issues deeper and go all out to researching on things like what John Perkins calls “Confessions of an Economic Hit-Man”-(available on Youtube.com)- where he goes on to mention things like an “Economic Hit Man”, “The Jackals”, and even the “Military Intervention” when the other two fail!!
Now, my question to you all is- How many of us are aware of this?
The reality is we still need to go deeper than ‘politickin the Kenyan Style’