MEMORY LANE: OCHUKA’S “INAUGURAL” SPEECH AUG 1982
An audio clip of the speech to the nation by Snr Prvt Hezekiah Ochuka, Chairman of the Peoples’ Redemption Council moments after he assumed the reign of the Republic in the early hours of 1st Aug. 1982 in a short-lived military coup. The “General” immediately decreed the release of all political prisoners & dispensed forthwith in seconds the old constitution. He also promised speedy economic emancipation, and swift power hand over upon free and fair election. This is all hypothesis but would the Junta have saved us all these relentless recovery & implementation efforts 30 years ago? PEV, Agenda 4, referendum, Watermelons, ICC, 2012 psyche? Most of us here if not all were still-born but what could this event retrospectively mean to the nation had it materialized? We all loathe Kifua take-overs of the inchi, but haven’t we also been subjected to the same albeit “civillian coup” over the last 30 years with as much ruthless results if not worst than uniformed coup? What’s the difference between dully “uharifu” night swearing on 30th Dec 2007 & Ochuka’s morning speech on Aug. 1982? .
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