Footnotes from a critical document per Researcher’s Philip P. Durand’s eye witness account on Kenya’s beginnings of its darkest hours from July 5th, 1969 that culminated in the Demonic Oath of Aug 5th, 1969, all the way to Nov 11, 1985 – A History Every Kenyan must pass on to successive generations. This explains the external circumstances and complex mechanisms that had to be put in place by Daniel arap Moi and the Kikuyu elitists/Mt Kenya Mafia how Jomo Kenyatta knowns Johnstone Kamau was protected by the Kikuyus and the Kalinjins to hijack the free will of the Kikuyus, the Embus and Kambas in order for the elitist of both communities to rule with utter impunity. It must be said that both Moi and Jomo Kenyatta were free masons. That is why he handed over to Moi and asked Moi to groom Jr Kenyatta after he passes on to keep the presidency in the House of Mumbi. That is why Uhuru Kenyatta is a prodigy of Moi...and very evil 1 The author was physically present in Kenya during the entire series of events listed. The sequence is taken from reports in the East African Standard and the Daily Nation published during the period except where otherwise noted. July 5, T. J. Mboya, M.P., Minister for Economic Development and Planning assassinated in Nairobi. July 8, rioting at Requiem Mass, cars stoned. July 9, Mboyas body taken to Kisumu. July 10, six charged with stone-throwing at Mass. July 11, burial. First indications that suspect located, gun examined. July 15, President addresses nation saying death must not destroy unity. July 21, Nahashon Isaac Njenga Njorege charged with Mboya murder. July 22, Vice-President gives final warning to rumour-mongers circulating stories about the assassination. July 29, Second Reading of National Assembly and Presidential Election Bill in National Assembly. Aug. 1, Kenya Peoples Union (K.P.U.) Vice-President and Administrative Secretary leave to rejoin Kenya African National Union, majority party (KANU). Aug. 5, thirteen killed in crash of lorries near Thika. Aug. 11, preliminary inquiry on Mboya assassination case begins. Aug. 12, KPU M.P. makes allegation in National Assembly of oathing at Presidents farm at Gatundu near Thika involving Wakikuyu travelling in lorries marked KANU Private. Oaths alleged to be that they would hate other tribes, particularly Luo from Nyanza (see Hansard, 12th August 1969, col. 3146-3172). Allegations were refuted by Vice-President and Minister of Home Affairs. Aug. 15, Director of Information accuses press of distortion, exaggerating facts and dramatising in reports of oathing. Aug. 17, President renews call for end of tribalism. Aug. 18, Njenga committed for trial. Aug. 19, M.P.s defend Kenya press in National Assembly. Sept. 1, Njenga trial opens. Sept. 7, 200 sign covenant against secret oaths at Nairobi Baptist Church. Sept. 8, Anglicans come out against oathing. Sept. 10, Njenga convicted and sentenced to death. Sept. 13, secret oathings condemned by Assistant Minister for Education; Catholic Bishops condemn oathing. Sept. 16, Minister for Education says he would draw attention of Ministry officials to allegations of oathing in schools. Sept. 18, press conference by Assistant Minister for Education with specific allegations of oathing incidents and terror in Ukambani. Sept. 19, on Presidents direction, Vice-President issues stern warning against illegal oaths and orders police to investigate all allegations of forcible oathing with view to prosecution. Sept. 20, widow of Presbyterian Church minister, herself severely injured, tells of fatal beating by oathing gang in Kikuyu area. Sept. 22, leaders from Embu refute Asst. Minister for Educations allegations. Sept. 23, three in Nakuru charged in court with oathing riot. Sept. 25, Asst. Minister for Education claims life threatened for stand against oathing. Sept. 26, three Nairobi journalists deported, allegedly for having made too much of Asst. Ministers press conference, although both newspapers involved cut out all possible inflammatory remarks made by him. Oct. 2, private question in Parliament concerning action against illegal oathing (Hansard, 2nd October, 1969, col. 160-162). Oct. 10, Luo elders call on President, who refuted allegations in memorandum presented concerning discrimination on tribal grounds in civil service, police, statutory bodies and national business organizations. Oct. 13, Njengas appeal dismissed by East African Court of Appeal. Oct. 20, outbreaks of violence on Kenyatta Day. Oct. 23, Vice-President warns rumour-mongers sabotaging stability and good order; Attorney-General warns in National Assembly that there is something sinister happening in this country. Oct. 26, violence following presidential speech in Kisumu, stoning, at least seven killed when shots fired by bodyguard during attack on presidential car; Kisumu placed under curfew. Oct. 27, KPU leaders rounded up and detained. Oct. 28, KPU accused by Vice-President of being behind rioting. Oct. 30, KPU banned. Nov. 7, Parliament dissolved. Nov. 11, election dates announced. Thereafter campaigning begins; many seek nomination under KANU label. 1 No cases involving prosecution for oathing during recent months have been brought to the authors attention, nor, to the best of his knowledge, have any reports been made via newspapers, which normally cover judicial proceedings on all levels in considerable detail. It is granted that prosecutions may, in fact, have been instituted or that events may have passed this conclusion by since completion of the article.8 Penal Code, ss. 61, 62, cap. 24, Laws of Kenya, 1948 Revision. 3 S. 62 covers administering of an oath to bind to person to engage in mutinous or seditious enterprise, commit any offence not punishable by death, disturb the public peace, be of any association, etc., formed for the purpose of doing any of the aforesaid acts, to obey the orders of a body, leader or other not having authority of law for that purpose, not to inform or give evidence against any associate, confederate or other person, and not to reveal or discover any unlawful association, etc., or any illegal oath or engagement that may have been administered or tendered. Under sub.-s. (2) it is unlawful to take any such oath or engagement not being compelled to do so.4 Ord. 2/1950, ss. 2 and 3. Excerpts graciously borrowed from this article: Journal of African Law / Volume 14 / Issue 01 / March 1970, pp 17-33 Customary Oathing and the Legal Process in Kenya Philip P. Durand1
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