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Today in History
President Jomo Kenyatta (right) and opposition Kenya Peoples Union leaderJaramogi Oginga confront each other in Kisumu on October 25, 1969. Eleven people were killed in riots that ensued.
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Eleven people were killed and scores of others injured during riots in Kisumu following a confrontation between President Jomo Kenyatta and opposition leader Jaramogi Oginga Odinga.
Kenyatta had gone to the lakeside town to open the Russian-built provincial hospital when he was confronted by Odinga and his Kenya Peoples Union supporters.
Political events in the build-up to the tragedy had soured relations between the two freedom fighters and their Kikuyu and Luo communities.
Odinga, Kenyatta’s first vice-president, had formed the Kenya Peoples Union (KPU) after being kicked out of Kanu in 1966. His party had seven MPs in Nyanza. And three months earlier, Tom Mboya, the urbane popular Luo politican, had been assassinated in Nairobi. These had turned Kisumu and Nyanza generally into an opposition stronghold.
On that Saturday, the Kenyatta motorcade rolled into Kisumu from Webuye, where he had opened the Pan Paper Mills, at about 3.30pm. When Kenyatta arrived at the hospital grounds, a crowd police estimated to number about 5,000 was waiting.
As he was inspecting a guard of honour, a section of the restless crowd started shouting, “Dume! Dume! Dume!”. It was the KPU slogan. The sloganeering continued as the President went to sit and even as he read his speech.
It was after the speech that Kenyatta and Odinga had an open and heated altercation. Kenyatta asked Odinga why he was misbehaving, yet he was his friend. Odinga reminded Kenyatta that he had fought for his release from detention, yet he had turned against him.
Kenyatta taunted Odinga about his communist leanings. Odinga responded by telling Kenyatta that he was now “eating with the very West” who had sent him to prison.
As things heated up, Kenyatta’s security quickly ushered him into his vehicle, which drove out of the grounds. As he left, hostile crowds started stoning his motorcade and police shot at them indiscriminately.
Mr Bernard Njinu, the presidential escort commander, described the situation as the most trying in his career. Kenya@50 caught up with Mr Njinu, who had later become Kenya’s third commissioner of police.
Speaking for the first time in 43 years the British-trained policeman said: “As commander, my main concern was the safety of the president. Not even the army was in charge of the president’s security at that time. I was in charge and had to ensure that he left the venue safely.” Mr Njinu is now a farmer in Kiambu.
As Kenyatta left the venue, police in the escort lead car opened fire along the road to scare away surging crowds. In the stampede and shooting, 11 people died — four children, five adults, and two policemen.
After Kenyatta left, a 6 pm to 6 am curfew was imposed in Kisumu town. It lasted two weeks.
Kenyatta, who was touring western Kenya for the first time since independence, did not return there until his death on August 22, 1978.
He ruled the country from his home in Gatundu and State House Nakuru, Nairobi, and Mombasa.
The incident marked the return of detention without trial and suppression of political dissent that was to haunt Kenya for the next two decades.
Three days later, Odinga and his deputy, Mr JM Nthula, who was MP for Iveti South, were put under house arrest.
Other KPU MPs and officials were also placed under house arrest. They were Achieng Oneko, the KPU publicity secretary, MPs Luke Obok (Alego), Tom Okello-Odongo (Kisumu Rural), Okuto Bala (Nyando), Odero Sar (Ugenya), Wasonga Sijeyo (Gem), and Ondieki Chilo of Nyakach. Also detained was the only woman, Caroline Okello-Odongo, Odinga’s secretary, who was the wife of the Kisumu Rural MP.
On October 30, 1969, the government banned KPU. It issued a gazette notice declaring that since its formation (1966), the party had become “more subversive both in its nature and in its objectives.”
KPU and all its branches were declared “dangerous to the good government of the Republic of Kenya.”
Kenyan students in Moscow violently demonstrated at the Kenyan embassy, injuring the ambassador, David Kayanda, with an iron bar.
more pics from this epic day, Jomo never set foot in Kisumu again
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Jomo and Jaramogi in happier times
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and the scions wanaendeleza hii rivaly, who will save Kenya
The story from another source
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Four months after the assassination of Tom Mboya outside a Nairobi pharmacy on July 5, 1969, President Jomo Kenyatta made a two-day historic official tour of Western and Nyanza provinces to familiarise himself with the development projects.
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Kisumu was Kenyatta’s last stop in Nyanza where he was scheduled to open the New Nyanza General Hospital. The 1.2 million pound hospital had been built with USSR (United Soviet Socialist Republic) aid.
The country and specifically Luo Nyanza was still tense as spontaneous political instability had erupted pitting Kikuyu and Luo ethnic groups after the Mboya assassin was identified as Mr Nahashon Njenga from Kiambu.
President Kenyatta was accompanied by Vice-President Daniel Arap Moi and a strong team of government ministers and top officials.
They included Kenyatta’s former Vice-President Jaramogi Oginga Odinga who had fallen out with Kanu and became chairman of Kenya People’s Union (KPU), a new political party.
The president’s entourage arrived in the outskirts of Kisumu town to be welcomed by stone-throwing youth lining up the sides of the highway shouting “Ndume, Ndume” as the motorcade zoomed into Kisumu.
Police had opened fire sending the youth scampering with gun wounds. Those caught were thoroughly beaten by the security.
Mr Odinga himself arrived at the playground, the venue of the public rally ahead of the presidential motorcade. Odinga was welcomed with roars of “Ndume! Ndume! Ndume!”, (Bull) the symbol of KPU.
Shortly before noon, similar shouts of “Ndume! Ndume! Ndume!” greeted Kenyatta to the venue of the public rally, thereby infuriating the President.
After the National Anthem was played, the Nyanza PC Isaiah Cheluget introduced the Vice-President who was to welcome the President to Nyanza Province. But then a scuffle ensued between Kanu and KPU youth wingers who threw stones.
Luo Nyanza was Odinga’s political stronghold and the President had essentially walked into an ambush. The dozen of opposition politics was preparing for a political verbal duel with Kenyatta at his home ground.
Mr Charles Mathenge, then popularly known as “Fundi wa Mitambo”, was on live broadcasting from Kisumu through OB (Outside Broadcasting) relaying the happenings direct to listeners of the VoK (Voice of Kenya) radio.
Mr Mathenge narrated an eyewitness account of the incident of 49 years ago in an interview with The Standard outside his Nyeri Gatumbiro Photographer Services recently.
“We arrived in Kisumu with my crew around 11 am ahead of the presidential party and set up our OB (Outside Broadcasting) equipment at the playground where the public rally was to be held before moving on to the Kisumu Russia Hospital for the official opening by President Kenyatta.
This event was to be broadcast live through our Nairobi VoK studios,” Mathenge said. He remembers seeing crowds swelling and packing the playground.
Odinga’s arrival was spectacular with thrilled crowds chanting the Kenya People’s Union (KPU) slogan of “Ndume! Ndume! Ndume!” filling the air as the KPU leader arrived and took his seat at the dais. There were school children to provide entertainment during the event.
“As President Kenyatta set foot, he was welcomed by organized gangs of youth shouting “Ndume! Ndume! Ndume! The presidential security ushered the President to the dais and the programme started.
”Before the Vice-President got a chance to introduce the President to the people of Nyanza, there were wild shouts. Stones started being lobbed to the area where the dignitaries were seated.
President Kenyatta then called the unruly crowds to calm down and be orderly, but his calls fell on deaf ears as more stones were lobbed at the presidential dais.
“The presidential bodyguards opened fire to scare off the surging crowds and at that moment, I switched off the live radio broadcast and came out of the studio built in the Land Rover, our Mobile OB. I then went to secure our microphones and shut the system to gag live broadcasting.“It was chaos in the making.
There were people felled by the bullets, some dead or dying and many others injured. Many people were shot. What caused more havoc was the stampede that ensued when gunfire shattered the air.
Many people, and especially children, tried to escape. Injured people were lying all over the playground.
“It was a terrible moment. I saw one of the presidential guards, Mr Gicheru, a hefty bouncer hoist President Kenyatta on his shoulders and dash with him feet off ground to the parked presidential limousine some distance away from the dais.
The security realised the President was in danger of being injured as missiles flew in the air directed to the dais.“As soon as the president was secure in his vehicle, the security cordoned the limousine.
Top security officers around, including Ben Gethi, then commandant of GSU, and Mr Njino, then head of Presidential Escort joined Mzee for consultation.
Mathenge quoted Kenyatta telling his top security: “We came here to open the hospital, which we must accomplish. I am the highest ranking individual in this country of Kenya, no other. We shall open the hospital and we shall go there by 2 pm.”The President had already sent for “Fundi wa Mitambo” Mathenge to come. He was waiting near the limousine to get instructions.
“Mzee told me that we were to go to the hospital for the official opening at 2 pm. It was around 1 pm. I was allocated a number of GSU men to guard our van. We collected our equipment and drove to Russia Hospital and by 2 pm were already set for the official opening.
The president meanwhile went to the PC’s residence and the entourage drove to the hospital around 2pm for the main event to start.
Soon after the President officially opened the hospital, it was time to return to Nairobi.
It was the last trip President Kenyatta made to Kisumu until his death in August 1978,”
The Kenyatta Government proscribed KPU and Odinga was placed under house arrest.
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Mombasa: Ivory Traders_C.1900
An American colonial counter of ivory in one of the main streets of Kenya’s port city Mombasa, around 1900. Kenyans load a cart with elephant tusks which will go to Europe or the United States by boat.
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These were huge animals, looking at the tusks.
Ferk the colonialists
Before the weaves came to spoil the beauty of an African woman
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undated pic of the Basilica, looks like late 60s
City Hall, Nairobi._1950
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gari za japan were unheard off, twas all european and american
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evolution of the tour van
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A dead lion lies strapped to the hood of a car after being shot during a hunt, ca.1930s. Kenya
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A local guide climbs up a pole to search for a likely quarry during a big game hunt in Kenya, circa 1895.
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Presidents Idi Amin of Uganda, Julius Nyerere of Tanzania and Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya in the 70s
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Jomo Kenyatta being sworn in, looking on are Mama Ngina and James Gichuru, 1963
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Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh arrive in Kenya, 1952_
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Mtwapa Creek Ferry, early 1952_
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