July 5th Special

In this edition of Kumekucha:

We name for the first time in Kenya, the Suspects (some of them still alive) of the Tom Mboya assassination.

We reveal an amazing prediction on Kenya's future from a man (not a Kenyan) who predicted President Kibaki's election victory and Kenya's second terrorist attack in Mombasa, many months and years earlier. He has some startling things to say about the political future of the country.

We celebrate the life of Thomas Joseph Mboya simply widely known as Tom Mboya.

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Welcome to this, the biggest ever Kenyan event to happen in the blogosphere.

This event is dedicated to a great son of Kenya whose life was brutally cut short by two assassin's bullets on a day just like today, July 5th 1969 at about 1 pm in broad daylight in the streets of Nairobi. He was only 39 years old. That man was Tom Mboya.

I do not intend to bore you with a long history lesson. Instead what I'll do is simply prove why his death was the great re-birth of tribalism in Kenya and why any healing of our country must start with the prosecution of those who played a part in his murder. Some of them are still alive and they today walk prosperous and powerful because they succeeded in silencing forever this, the greatest politician to have ever been carried in the womb of a Kenyan woman.

I will ask and answer a number of simple questions that will show why this man's life and death are so closely linked to the problems facing Kenya today. I will do it without fear or favor. I will name names.

Why Was Tom Mboya Killed?
Mainly because he was a threat. He was a threat to the rising corruption that had already began and was escalating then he was a threat to tribalism which was being used to help build an evil system that would grow to stifle and suffocate Kenyans in years to come.

Tom Mboya was a political organizer and operator of a caliber that had never been seen and has never been seen since. He had played a major role in the victory of KANU – a nationalist party with national policies over a settlet sponsored party that was little more than a coming together of tribal chiefs who referred to their tribes as small tribes that were in danger of being swallowed by the big tribes in independent Kenya. The party was called the Kenya African Democratic Union (KADU). Still their ideas later came to take a firm footing in the country through the elevation of one of their key people to the presidency in 1978. That person was President Moi.

To this day, listening to President Moi speaking politics, for those who understood what KADU stood for, is like listening to a political campaign of the party way back in 1963.

Even President Kibaki is currently using KADU tactics to stay in power with his so-called government of national unity that is nothing more than a banding together of tribal chiefs with significant following from different parts of the country. Some would go as far as saying that KANU and the true ideals of KANU died with Tom Mboya on that sunny Saturday in the month of July, 1969.

What does the death of a man who died in 1969 have to do with my life as a Kenyan today?
All his life Tom Mboya represented cosmopolitan Nairobi constituencies, starting with the whole of Nairobi in 1969 when the first African leaders were elected to the Legco (legislative council) until his death. Ironically most of the people who cast votes for TJ (as he was popularly known) were from the Kikuyu tribe. The fact that he was a Suba (Luo from Rusinga island) never became an issue. In virtually all his politicl campaigns, Tom Mboya faced Kikuyu candidates and easily defeated them.

So what happened? What has taken the country back since the 60s to a situation today where it is virtually impossible for a Luo to be elected by Kikuyu voters in preference to their own Kikuyu candidate?

After Mboya's death the people who took to the streets in protest were mainly Luos. This was the saddest thing because Mboya had never stood for anything tribal, let alone Luo. That was the beginning of the great cancer we have today in Kenyan politics where any politician faced with a crisis turns to his tribe and claims that it is not him who is being dealt with but the entire community. Mboya's assassination was also a clear sign that no major national politician could be assured of a firm political base in the city. It caused people like Mwai Kibaki to shift from their Bahati constituency in Nairobi (organized for him by Tom Mboya himself) to Othaya in Nyeri.

Who killed Tom Mboya?
There was no love lost between Tom Mboya and President Kenyatta's inner circle – all Kikuyus. They secretly referred to him as Kihehe Kikuyu word for uncircumsized. Traditionally the Luo (like most nilotes) do not believe in circumcision. The Kikuyu related circumcision to manhood and bravery and to them those who are not circumcised are little more than cowrdly boys who are not yet men.

Yet Tom Mboya was the furthest person one could associate cowardice with. He had almost single-handedly engineered independence for Kenya through some well calculated moves and had outsmarted the colonialists at every turn.

The real cowards were members of this kitchen cabinet who could not dare call Mboya a Kihehe in his face. Mboya spoke a number of African languages fluently, one of which was Kikuyu. Instead this corrupt tribalists chose the cowardly act of sending an assassin to kill Mboya.

There are those who are convinced that there was help and support from a major foreign power in carrying out this execution. But there is little proof of this other than motive. The man who was arrested for pulling the trigger of the gun that killed Mboya, Nahashon Njenga, kept on referring to "the big man" who had sent him to execute the mission, without revealing who the big man was.

Some of the people who were in President Kenyatta's inner circle who are still alive today include the following. Dr Njoroge Mungai (former cabinet minister and one of the wealthiest people in the country), Charles Rubia (former mayor of Nairobi), Charles Mugane Njonjo (former powerful AG) and President Mwai Kibaki (finance minister in the Kenyatta government for many years).

Wasn't the man who fired the bullets prosecuted and sentenced to hang?
An Asian couple visiting Ethiopia claimed that they saw Njenga there. It is quite likely that he was never hanged. Besides, it was quite clear that he never acted alone. Powerful men in president Kenyatta's inner circle sent him on this terrible mission.

Is it not Mboya who wanted to assassinate Kenyatta and become president? Is this not the reason why he had to be assassinated first?
There have been suggestions that Mboya, who was known to be extremely ambitious would stop at nothing but the presidency and that he had an elaborate plan that may have involved assassination. This is pure nonsense. Mboya had brought down the colonialists using peaceful means, why would he suddenly turn violent?

What seemed to strengthen these rumours was the assassination of Pio Gama Pinto (a man with communist inclinations and a close supporter of Jaramogi Oginga Odinga). It is believed that the assassination had the blessing of Mboya's friends' the Americans and that Mboya himself must have known about it. What made people fear Mboya even more was the belief that he was a CIA operative.

Still if the government had evidence that Mboya planned an assassination, there were a whole lot of options open to the president including the notorious detention without trial that was in force then. No, an assassination is mostly a cowardly act usually carried out by those who fear the political power of the subject or their ability to change things and see no other option in outsmarting them other than permanently silencing them. Just look at all the great people who have been assassinated. President Abraham Lincon, Mahatma Gandhi of India and President John F. Kennedy, his brother senator Robert Kennedy among many others.

Are you suggesting that by finding the killers of Mboya we will get rid of tribalism In Kenya? That's ridiculous.
What I am saying is that when you lose your way, the only way to get back on the right track is to go back to where you started and then find the right path and get back on track. As long as the assassination of Mboya remains unsolved and unresolved, then there is little chance of other political assassinations that followed like that of JM Kariuki and Robert Ouko ever being resolved.

What should be done?
Kenyans should demand that the killers of Mboya be brought to book. This is the perfect place to start because there is little room or possibility for the usual political heat to hijack this initiative and finally frustrate it, like has happened so many times before. By getting to the bottom of the Mboya assassination, it will then be easy to deal with other assassinations. If it is true that there was a conspiracy involving foreign powers, then let the evidence be given to the people and let us get to the bottom of it. We need to ensure that never again will persons get away with murder when their identity is known and when there is enough evidence to prosecute them. Never again should there be stones in Kenya that are too heavy to turn over in an investigation.

Other Tom Mboya Articles In This Blog:

Exposed: Murder Of Mboya, JM And Ouko Linked To Standard Newspapers Raid

Where Tom Mboya’s Assassination Was Planned?

Tom Mboya: American Friends Were Expecting Assassination Attempt

Political Assassinations In Kenya
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SEE THE AMAZING KENYA PROPHECY and what is said about the political future of Kenya.

Tj We Remember a Photo Tribute to Tom Mboya

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The Amazing Kenya Prophecy

The really amazing thing about these predictions that have been made about Kenya by a Bible preaching prophet, who is not even a Kenyan is that they have come true with such amazing accuracy that it is almost unbelievable.

Thomas Manton, based in the UK, is not even a Kenyan.

It starts with the prediction of a Kibaki victory in what it calls an "upset victory regardless of any powers that be" and moves on to predict that Kenya's GNP will rise tremendously over the next 5 years (from 2002). At the time the prediction was made Kenya had gone through a number of years of negative growth. Kenya's GNP has shown impressive growth over the last few years averaging about 5% annually.

Maybe the most amazing of the predictions on Kenya by Mr Manton was that of another terrorist attack in Kenya, but this one with fewer casualties. This actually came to pass in 2003 in the Kikambala bombings in Mombasa at a tourist resort run by Israelis.

"You'll even be the envy of other nations. They'll say; "Why Kenya? What is it about Kenya?" The Lord says My favour is coming upon you, O Kenya, for you've found favour in My sight!…"
-Prophet Thomas Manton-

Mr Manton goes on to make other amazing political and economic predictions that are yet to happen
· There is going to be an unprecedented increase of produce from the farming industry.
· A genuine, true, born again Christian will become president of Kenya.
· A new "middle class" will emerge where after many years through great reformation, it will be possible for many common businessmen who start off with nothing to greatly prosper.
· Corruption will be broken up. The new breed of Kenyans who will break it will not even be frightened for their own lives.
· True justice will come forth as never before.
· A new government will come forth with radical new reforms and strategies that will usher in 'the day of the people' and 'the day of the common man.'
· However before the new comes, there will be great conflict and adversity in uprooting the "old order." Manton says, "the resetting of the bone must happen after it is broken."

Read the full Amazing Thomas Manton Prophecy on Kenya.