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My favourite is, "Misunderstood?"
The Ndeiya Oracle MIT predicted this. Njonjo is dead
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Meria
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Organization Of African Union (OAU) Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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r Robert Ouko, Charles Njonjo, president Moi, Ambassador Bethuel Kiplagat, Munyua Waiyaki and GG Kariuki.
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r Robert Ouko, Charles Njonjo, president Moi, Ambassador Bethuel Kiplagat, Munyua Waiyaki and GG Kariuki.View attachment 50894
Meria
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Njonjos missing beer mug.
This story is recorded in at least two memoirs, and it would be quirky if it wasn’t simply absurd. Charles Njonjo was known for his many eccentricities, the most famous of which were his pinstripe signature suits and his Machiavellian desire for power. But then there was the silver beer mug.
Njonjo would only drink beer from his own mug, which he carried around. One day, he attended a party at Njenga Karume’s palatial home in Cianda. Karume had gone to great lengths to find him his preferred beer, because when your boys are coming over for a house party, you have to at least try. Anyway, after the shenanigans ended, Njonjo left, most likely in a bit of a stupor. We know this because of all things inebriation can make you forget, he forgot the only thing he cared about. His beer mug.
Small matter? Yes? Absolutely not! Njonjo was the Attorney General, and you know what happens when the AG’s beer mug goes missing? Absolute chaos.
Njonjo called the PC of Central Province and told him to find the mug. I guess he also threatened his job if he didn’t find this treasured piece of crockery. So the PC called the DC, who then called the DO to personally go and turn the place upside down. An entire provincial administration holding its breath as the lower ranks launched the most serious ‘mug-hunt in Kenyan history.’
The missing mug was eventually found somewhere in Karume’s kitchen, where a diligent staff member had placed it after cleaning it. From one of his most recent interviews, we still know the nonagenarian enjoys the occasional beer, presumably shadowed by a cup-bearer lest it disappears again.
Meria
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@QuadroK4000 kuja shika TBT
Kuna picha? Alafu, arent those two the same person?
Meria
Elder Lister
Kenyan chiefs, many of whom collaborated with the colonial government and whose children and grandchildren have ascended to positions of incredible power and wealth in Kenya.
These chiefs drew their power from association with the colonialists. They included:
- Koinange wa Mbiyu.
- Karuri wa Gakure.
- Njiiri wa Karanja.
- Angaine M'Itiria.
- Musa Nyandusi.
- Kinyanjui wa Gathirimu.
- Muhoho wa Gathecha.
- Michuki wa Kagwi.
- Josiah Njonjo.
- Amoth Owira of Alego.
- Mwendwa Kitavi.
It should be known that the British colonialists reached a point that they knew they had to leave Kenya since they couldn't handle the Mau Mau suppression and the world was moving towards accepting an independent Africa. However, the colonialists devised an evil scheme that is still ingrained in our country upto this day. Under this scheme, the colonial state came up with a plan that saw the first crop of chiefly “big men” being empowered financially to take their children to schools and eventually have those children go to England for further studies and eventually providing a ready-made socio-economic and political class to whom independence and state power could be entrusted in the post-colonial era. This explains why their children and grandchildren still hold majority of almost all important positions in government or in the private sector supported by state machinery.
This also explains why children and grandchildren of these homeguards are always given preferential treatment when it comes to government appointments.
Wewe na masomo yako you are always asking why you can never get a job in government...yet you're qualified..now you know.
Its important to note that as long as Uhuru is President of Kenya, there are some government positions that ata uwe umesoma hadi kiwango gani..you will never get that job. Those jobs are reserved for homeguards and their generations. This explains why when Uhuru makes appointments, always check closely it's to people from prominent families.
His father Jomo did the same thing.
EXAMPLES:
-- Senior Chief Mwendwa Kitavi of Kitui produced Kenya’s first African Chief Justice, Kitili, and three Cabinet Ministers in the Kenyatta and Moi governments — Eliud Ngala, his brother Kyale and Kitili’s widow, Nyiva.
-- The late Minister John Michuki was born in 1932 to the 45th wife of Chief Michuki wa Kagwi who had 47 wives.
Michuki's early life was similar to that of many post-colonial African elite. When he died in 2012, he left a Sh10bn estate.
-- Senior Chief Musa Nyandusi, father to Simeon Nyachae (former PC, Head of civil service, Minister for Finance, Agric), once hid Jomo Kenyatta from the colonialists. He is said to be the first person to own a car in Kisii, was husband to 15 wives and sired over 100 children.
-- It was Senior Chief Njiiri wa Karanja (of Kigumo) son, Kariuki Karanja wa Njiiri, who vacated the Kigumo legislative seat in 1962 to allow Kenyatta to make it to parliament & participate in the 2nd Lancaster House Conference.
Apparently, the decades of grumbling about this "debt" owed by Kenyatta seems to have borne fruit as the Uhuru government recently allocated Sh340mn for the upgrade of Kangari market in Kigumo constituency.
-- Chief Muhoho wa Gatheca (b. 1872) was father to Mama Ngina & George Muhoho, a former priest and the Pope's private secretary, who became Education, then Tourism, then Technology minister in the Moi govt and now a power behind the Uhuru throne.
Another son, Paul Gathecha got entangled in the NYS corruption scandal but upto this day, we only hear of Waiguru and PS Omollo and the Ngiricis as the main culprits. This one from the royal family was let go with a slap on the hand. He's also the father to former Kiambu women rep Anna Nyokabi.
-- Senior Chief Waruhiu wa Kung'u served the colonialists for 30 years and believed that their authority was God-given and to disobey them was tantamount to disobeying God.
He was shot in the mouth by an assassin in October 1952, precipitating a state of emergency 2 weeks later.
Chief Waruhiu had five wives and amongst his children were:
1. Sam Waruhiu: Early student at Mangu and later on Chairman of Old Mutual and Barclays.
2. George Waruhiu of Waruhiu and Co. Advocates.
-- Senior Chief Magugu wa Waweru was chief of Komothai Location in 1935. Known to be lacklustre, he was father to Arthur Magugu who went on to become a finance minister in the Moi government.
-- Senior Chief Amoth Owira of Alego was father to Cornel Rasanga, governor of Siaya County and Dr. Patrick Amoth, Ag. Director Gen for Health, and Vice President WHO Executive Board.
Chief Amoth has been described as a leading collaborator.
AFTERMATH:
There is the story of General Baimungi Marete who was murdered by the Kenyatta government in 1965 after pointing out that promises made to the MauMau were not being delivered.
His family lives in abject poverty to this day.
If you look closely, those who fought in the forest as genuine MauMau are still fighting poverty today. It took me some effort to even internalise all this. The one thing that's missing are the lines that connect the dots. In there lies the story of how Kenyatta ended up being the choice candidate for PM then President... that puzzle requires a white board like you see in FBI movies...
Our 8-4-4 syllabus may as well have been written by the Brits because the ordinary citizen on the street is still riding on their primary/high school knowledge on the history of Kenya, which is all bullshit!
Scratch below the surface and you see the game which is more complex than is innocuous-seeming stuff...its from here that you'll understand why the Kenyatta family is sending roses to London in the midst of a pandemic ati it's been in solidarity with their customers while our miraa farmers can't be allowed to send miraa to their Somali or Yemeni customers as a show of solidarity as well....Therein lies our problems as a nation. While we are mired in the confusion and intricacies of party politics, the succession plan that Britain engineered before independence is working exactly as envisaged. They are still calling the shots via their middlemen, the 2nd & 3rd generation homeguards.
These chiefs drew their power from association with the colonialists. They included:
- Koinange wa Mbiyu.
- Karuri wa Gakure.
- Njiiri wa Karanja.
- Angaine M'Itiria.
- Musa Nyandusi.
- Kinyanjui wa Gathirimu.
- Muhoho wa Gathecha.
- Michuki wa Kagwi.
- Josiah Njonjo.
- Amoth Owira of Alego.
- Mwendwa Kitavi.
It should be known that the British colonialists reached a point that they knew they had to leave Kenya since they couldn't handle the Mau Mau suppression and the world was moving towards accepting an independent Africa. However, the colonialists devised an evil scheme that is still ingrained in our country upto this day. Under this scheme, the colonial state came up with a plan that saw the first crop of chiefly “big men” being empowered financially to take their children to schools and eventually have those children go to England for further studies and eventually providing a ready-made socio-economic and political class to whom independence and state power could be entrusted in the post-colonial era. This explains why their children and grandchildren still hold majority of almost all important positions in government or in the private sector supported by state machinery.
This also explains why children and grandchildren of these homeguards are always given preferential treatment when it comes to government appointments.
Wewe na masomo yako you are always asking why you can never get a job in government...yet you're qualified..now you know.
Its important to note that as long as Uhuru is President of Kenya, there are some government positions that ata uwe umesoma hadi kiwango gani..you will never get that job. Those jobs are reserved for homeguards and their generations. This explains why when Uhuru makes appointments, always check closely it's to people from prominent families.
His father Jomo did the same thing.
EXAMPLES:
-- Senior Chief Mwendwa Kitavi of Kitui produced Kenya’s first African Chief Justice, Kitili, and three Cabinet Ministers in the Kenyatta and Moi governments — Eliud Ngala, his brother Kyale and Kitili’s widow, Nyiva.
-- The late Minister John Michuki was born in 1932 to the 45th wife of Chief Michuki wa Kagwi who had 47 wives.
Michuki's early life was similar to that of many post-colonial African elite. When he died in 2012, he left a Sh10bn estate.
-- Senior Chief Musa Nyandusi, father to Simeon Nyachae (former PC, Head of civil service, Minister for Finance, Agric), once hid Jomo Kenyatta from the colonialists. He is said to be the first person to own a car in Kisii, was husband to 15 wives and sired over 100 children.
-- It was Senior Chief Njiiri wa Karanja (of Kigumo) son, Kariuki Karanja wa Njiiri, who vacated the Kigumo legislative seat in 1962 to allow Kenyatta to make it to parliament & participate in the 2nd Lancaster House Conference.
Apparently, the decades of grumbling about this "debt" owed by Kenyatta seems to have borne fruit as the Uhuru government recently allocated Sh340mn for the upgrade of Kangari market in Kigumo constituency.
-- Chief Muhoho wa Gatheca (b. 1872) was father to Mama Ngina & George Muhoho, a former priest and the Pope's private secretary, who became Education, then Tourism, then Technology minister in the Moi govt and now a power behind the Uhuru throne.
Another son, Paul Gathecha got entangled in the NYS corruption scandal but upto this day, we only hear of Waiguru and PS Omollo and the Ngiricis as the main culprits. This one from the royal family was let go with a slap on the hand. He's also the father to former Kiambu women rep Anna Nyokabi.
-- Senior Chief Waruhiu wa Kung'u served the colonialists for 30 years and believed that their authority was God-given and to disobey them was tantamount to disobeying God.
He was shot in the mouth by an assassin in October 1952, precipitating a state of emergency 2 weeks later.
Chief Waruhiu had five wives and amongst his children were:
1. Sam Waruhiu: Early student at Mangu and later on Chairman of Old Mutual and Barclays.
2. George Waruhiu of Waruhiu and Co. Advocates.
-- Senior Chief Magugu wa Waweru was chief of Komothai Location in 1935. Known to be lacklustre, he was father to Arthur Magugu who went on to become a finance minister in the Moi government.
-- Senior Chief Amoth Owira of Alego was father to Cornel Rasanga, governor of Siaya County and Dr. Patrick Amoth, Ag. Director Gen for Health, and Vice President WHO Executive Board.
Chief Amoth has been described as a leading collaborator.
AFTERMATH:
There is the story of General Baimungi Marete who was murdered by the Kenyatta government in 1965 after pointing out that promises made to the MauMau were not being delivered.
His family lives in abject poverty to this day.
If you look closely, those who fought in the forest as genuine MauMau are still fighting poverty today. It took me some effort to even internalise all this. The one thing that's missing are the lines that connect the dots. In there lies the story of how Kenyatta ended up being the choice candidate for PM then President... that puzzle requires a white board like you see in FBI movies...
Our 8-4-4 syllabus may as well have been written by the Brits because the ordinary citizen on the street is still riding on their primary/high school knowledge on the history of Kenya, which is all bullshit!
Scratch below the surface and you see the game which is more complex than is innocuous-seeming stuff...its from here that you'll understand why the Kenyatta family is sending roses to London in the midst of a pandemic ati it's been in solidarity with their customers while our miraa farmers can't be allowed to send miraa to their Somali or Yemeni customers as a show of solidarity as well....Therein lies our problems as a nation. While we are mired in the confusion and intricacies of party politics, the succession plan that Britain engineered before independence is working exactly as envisaged. They are still calling the shots via their middlemen, the 2nd & 3rd generation homeguards.
Meria
Elder Lister
Margaret Bryson Njonjo, Charles Njonjo's (former AG) wife.
Charles Njonjo, the former Attorney General never intended to marry an African girl, let alone a woman from Kabete where he was born in 1920.
He at an age that would be considered quite advanced by standards of the time, later married Margaret Bryson in 1972.
Jomo Kenyatta as President was getting uneasy as his legal advisor had no wife at 50.
Duncan Ndegwa, Kenya's first head of the civil service says in his 2009 bio, 'Walking in Kenyatta Struggles,' that good old Jomo thoroughly enjoyed the sideshows starring the Attorney General and Margaret Wanjiru Koinange, Kenya's then Matron-in-Chief.
Wanjiru Koinange grew up next to the Njonjos in Kabete and was smitten by the dapper AG with a penchant for lunchtime wine sessions while working barefoot in his office.
While at State House, Kenyatta would put the black telephone receiver on his ear and pretend Wanjiru Koinange was on the line enquiring whether Charles Njonjo was around, much to his discomfort.
Charles Njonjo, the former Attorney General never intended to marry an African girl, let alone a woman from Kabete where he was born in 1920.
He at an age that would be considered quite advanced by standards of the time, later married Margaret Bryson in 1972.
Jomo Kenyatta as President was getting uneasy as his legal advisor had no wife at 50.
Duncan Ndegwa, Kenya's first head of the civil service says in his 2009 bio, 'Walking in Kenyatta Struggles,' that good old Jomo thoroughly enjoyed the sideshows starring the Attorney General and Margaret Wanjiru Koinange, Kenya's then Matron-in-Chief.
Wanjiru Koinange grew up next to the Njonjos in Kabete and was smitten by the dapper AG with a penchant for lunchtime wine sessions while working barefoot in his office.
While at State House, Kenyatta would put the black telephone receiver on his ear and pretend Wanjiru Koinange was on the line enquiring whether Charles Njonjo was around, much to his discomfort.
Meria
Elder Lister
Andrew Mungai Muthemba. First man to be charged with treason in kenya,
On Thursday, March 19, 1981, Kenyans woke up to the news that a Nairobi businessman, Andrew Mungai Muthemba, had been charged with attempting to overthrow the government.
Mr Muthemba, a bespectacled camera-shy engineer, was accused that between December 15 and February 23, he had “compassed, imagined or intended to depose by unlawful means” President Moi from his position as President of Kenya.
The Muthemba case came at a time when Moi was getting paranoid about schemes to remove him from power.
In April 1980, President Moi had warned would-be dissidents and those “scrambling for power” that he would lock them up if they did not toe the government line.
It was in that political jumble that Attorney-General James Karugu and Chief Public Prosecutor Sharad Rao sought an urgent appointment with the president.
The two, it is now known, had disagreed on what to do with Muthemba’s flirtation with some military personnel.
What was known at that time was that between December 15, 1980 and February 23, 1981, Muthemba had tried to get Corporal Joseph Njiru Shimba to steal 10 hand grenades, 10 remote control devices, and an unspecified number of aircraft bombs.
He had also tried to get Captain Ricky Waithaka Gitucha to steal 100 grenades, mortars, machine guns and ammunition, rifles, plastic explosives, bomb timers, and remote control devices.
But why would a civilian try to get all these weapons?
“As far as I am concerned,” Muthemba would tell the Chief Magistrate, Fidahussein Abdullah, as the case opened, “I was performing my duty. I was not doing it for my own ends.”
For the police, this explanation did not add up.
Muthemba had told them that he was investigating — with the “knowledge” of Charles Njonjo, then powerful Minister for Constitutional Affairs — the illegal acquisition of citizenship, work permits, illegal foreign exchange transactions, and smuggling of arms and ammunition.
On March 31, 1980, when Njonjo was still the Attorney General, Muthemba had gone to see him regarding currency smuggling.
Whether they discussed any other matter is still in contention. “When Muthemba came to my office, the then deputy public prosecutor, Mr Karugu, was around.
Muthemba said there was talk about smuggling of foreign exchange,” Njonjo would admit in court. “I never asked Muthemba to carry out investigations.”
If Muthemba decided to expand his investigations, he must have thought that Njonjo would save him. He did not know that Njonjo was also a marked man.
That day, Njonjo recalled, he picked up the phone and called a Mr Shapi, an assistant commissioner at the Central Bank’s exchange control branch, and asked him to investigate Muthemba’s claims.
“Muthemba at that time did not talk of anything else.
He did not visit me again when I was Attorney-General. He has never visited me in my residence and he has never discussed with me anything about smuggling of arms…”
When Muthemba decided to carry out “investigations” on the arms smuggling, he recruited Dickson Kamau Muiruri to source the military hardware for him, arousing the interest of the Special Branch — led by James Kanyotu — which got wind of the request.
As Muiruri, through a Mr Kamau Georges, approached Cpl Joseph Njiru Shimba, a supplies officer at the Kenya Airforce, to steal the arsenal for him, he again triggered the interest of Special Branch officers.
Cpl. Shimba had never dealt with military hardware before. He was only involved in the supply of bedding, uniforms, liquid oxygen, and motor vehicle spare parts.
“I had never dealt with armaments before,” he would later say.
On the day Njonjo appeared in court during the Muthemba trial, he admitted to have authorised Muthemba to liaise with Shapi to nail the currency smugglers.
“At that time, it was interesting because the majority of people at the time were interested in smuggling.
This appeared to be a genuine desire with a sense of commitment on the part of Muthemba,” said Njonjo.
Muiruri had also approached Captain Ricky Waithaka Gitucha with similar requests on behalf of Muthemba.
Gitucha, alarmed by the range of weapons requested, sought to meet with Muthemba. They met on February 4, 1980 at 11.29 am.
He adopted the name Richard Kariuki and started filing intelligence reports. During this meeting at Muthemba’s sixth floor office at Diamond Trust building, they talked of a group that was plotting to overthrow Moi and had acquired a few items — hand grenades and timing devices — which were hidden in Nanyuki. Muthemba, who had graduated from Russia’s Friendship University in 1965, wanted a quotation on 100 M36 hand grenades, smoke grenades, mortars, and bombs.
“He told me they were planning for a group of 50 people and their training was in Ndeiya Forest, but they need some experts,” said Gitucha.
It is believed that Gitucha brought the matter to the attention of the Kenya Airforce Commander, Major General Peter Kariuki, and the Chief of General Staff, General Jackson Mulinge, who directed proper investigations.
On February 19, 1981 Capt Gitucha was introduced to Senior Superintendent Moses Mimano of the Special Branch by his boss, Kassim Rashid Salim, and was instructed to go and visit Muthemba and get to the bottom of this request.
“Before leaving, Capt Gitucha was fitted with a microphone transmitter,” Mimano would later reveal.
The airforce captain drove to Muthemba’s office and was followed by Snr Supt Mimano in another car.
They parked outside and Mimano prepared to tape the conversation from his car.
While the recording was not clear, Mimano had an officer transcribe the discussions. One statement stood out in the conversation: “Bata no mundu uyu ehere” (The important thing is that this man goes). This was encouragement for Gitucha to act quickly.
“This man”, Gitucha thought, meant President Moi.
Muthemba was rich and well-connected. A millionaire in his own right, he owned Kentazuga Hardware stores, a building in Nairobi’s central business district, and was a big supplier to the government. He had also been involved in regional businesses in Uganda.
Four days after he was tape-recorded, police arrived at his office and took away documents containing the telephone records of his secretary, Miss Margaret Ouko.
Muthemba was taken to Special Branch headquarters where he recorded the statement mentioning Njonjo’s name.
QuadroK4000
Elder Lister
To scramble the almost entire security apparatus for a mere jug ya kunywa pombe is in bad taste, disrespectful and arrogant.
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Meria
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𝗛𝗼𝗻.𝗗𝗶𝘅𝗼𝗻 𝗞𝗶𝗵𝗶𝗸𝗮 𝗞𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶
~Born in 1930.
~Represented 3 constituencies namely; Nakuru North (1974-1979), Laikipia West constituency (1992-1997), Molo constituency (1997-2002).
~Married 8 wives and distributed across his many pieces of land in Nakuru and Laikipia counties.
~At one point, he sponsored 6 of his wives to vie in 6 different constituencies within Nakuru and Laikipia counties.
~Led the change the constitution team that didn't want then VP. Daniel Moi to take over presidency in case Jomo died together with Mbiyu Koinange and Njoroge Mungai.
~Told Attorney General, Njonjo in presence of Moi, "Why are you protecting this man? I can finish him politically within one day", referring to the seated Moi.
~The day Moi took over power he fled to exile. He however came back later after reconciling with Moi.
~Kihika used to brag during his rallies that he can marry a woman in every 6months due to his vast land.
~The only politician who had the guts to parade Mungiki with dreads in front of President Moi, telling him that they had surrendered.
~He is the founder of "Ngwaniro", a group which helped Kikuyu community in Nakuru and Laikipia counties buy large tracks of land and used to champion the needs of the Community in Rift Valley.
~He died in 2004 at the age of 74 leaving behind 8 wives and 41 children among them the current Nakuru senator, Sen. Susan Kihika.
~Born in 1930.
~Represented 3 constituencies namely; Nakuru North (1974-1979), Laikipia West constituency (1992-1997), Molo constituency (1997-2002).
~Married 8 wives and distributed across his many pieces of land in Nakuru and Laikipia counties.
~At one point, he sponsored 6 of his wives to vie in 6 different constituencies within Nakuru and Laikipia counties.
~Led the change the constitution team that didn't want then VP. Daniel Moi to take over presidency in case Jomo died together with Mbiyu Koinange and Njoroge Mungai.
~Told Attorney General, Njonjo in presence of Moi, "Why are you protecting this man? I can finish him politically within one day", referring to the seated Moi.
~The day Moi took over power he fled to exile. He however came back later after reconciling with Moi.
~Kihika used to brag during his rallies that he can marry a woman in every 6months due to his vast land.
~The only politician who had the guts to parade Mungiki with dreads in front of President Moi, telling him that they had surrendered.
~He is the founder of "Ngwaniro", a group which helped Kikuyu community in Nakuru and Laikipia counties buy large tracks of land and used to champion the needs of the Community in Rift Valley.
~He died in 2004 at the age of 74 leaving behind 8 wives and 41 children among them the current Nakuru senator, Sen. Susan Kihika.
Meria
Elder Lister
Paramount Chief Kinyanjui (seated in the middle of the group,wearing a checked blanket), Paramount Chief Koinange Wa Mbiyu (seated on Kinyanjui's left with a jacket and a walking stick over one shoulder) and Paramount Chief Josiah Njonjo (sitting on the ground infront and to the right of Kinyanjui with his felt hat beside him ).
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This story caught me as i was watching another feature on ktn news on how kikuyus stole land and how they think all land is theirs.