When you consider how poorly executed the coup was it becomes difficult to imagine that a person like Oginga Odinga who was once VP and knew what it takes to topple a government was actually involved deeply. I mean seriously, these people thought that taking over broadcasting house amounted to a coup. How amateurish is that ?

So Oginga funded the coup huh ? How much funding did the Airforce serrvicemen really need to pick up their rifles and storm Broadcasting house ?

Its difficult to imagine that Oginga Odinga thought he could topple the government using two Airforce privates and no senior officers to mastermind the coup. This is a man who as a former VP understood how the military works.

Based on the original stories, I have read, the coup plotters were unhappy because of the way junior officers were treated and that was their main reason for plotting a coup. It is also obvious that Moi knew a coup was coming. Thats why according to reliable sources, he was so nonchalant about it.

Another thing that difficult to imagine is that given all the contacts Oginga had overseas, he never thought of an escape plan should the coup fail. He and RAO actually waited like sitting ducks for Moi to come and arrest them.

And RAO was not that popular in 1982. If Moi thought he was guilty, he would have charged him with treason.

Moi accused RAO of all manner of things when he was President and even locked him up in detention. But he never came out and said that RAO was one of the master minds of the coup and even went as far as dropping the charges ?

I have noticed of late that there has been a concerted effort in some of the media to trash Oginga Odinga. Those who lived through the Kenyatta years will tell you that the same thing happened in the 1970s. Is history repeating itself ?

RAO was actually charged with treason according to the charge sheet prepared by sharad rao. there was actually a watertight case as patrick shaw and by then CİD used to be meticulous in gathering evidence. if the trial went through RAO would have been convicted. sharad rao entered a nolle prosequi against the charges facing RAO who was then detained and brought in 1984 to testify against msaliti in the miller commission which was not disbanded but actually gave recommendations which were not implemented. i still have the "Weekly Review" from those days.

Actually starting with the first treason trial in kenya in 1980-81 the Muthembwa trial before chief justice simpson you could tell something was being planned.

As for RAO organizing the 1990 saba saba riots that is just hogwash he was nowhere near the table actually he was in detention.

No value to the thread? Thank you sir.

sorry little value for someone who claims to be in the know

Thanks @mkonomtupu it is important to teach these Kifake shuldrens the right history government and civics. Some of them read only geography and physical sciences. . .

If the Saba Saba 'Uprisings' and agitation for constutional change were a football match Rayila cannot make the first 11, infact much to the chagrin on his supporters hata bench zi.
First eleven reads like,
1. Timothy Njoya, 2.Ahmed Salim Bahmariz 3.Rhumba Kinuthia 3.Masinde Muliro 4.Martin Shikuku before the ugali incident 5 . Ken Stanley Njindo 6.Jaramogi Adononija Oginga Odinga 7. Paul Kibugi Muite 9. Nthenge George 10. James orengo 11. Gitobu Imanyara

the reserve team had the likes of kijana wamalwa as deputy captain, Salim NdamweJohn Khaminwa,Koigi Wamwere Phiroze Nowrojee, Kathurima inoti, George Anyona serving injury in prison. Mohammed Ibrahim, Gitobu Imanyara, Charles Rubia,Gibson Kamau Kuria Kiraitu Murungi, etc ongezea any other players i might have left out including Wangari Maathai and Ndingi MwanaNzeki, Manasses Kuria, ArchBishop Okoth Rayila was a ball boy

On this 82 monkey business editors of the time the likes of Nyamora and Hillary Ngweno owe us the real history of what really went down in this Kenya's unspoken.

And before people start throwing stones notice Ubaks names is inentionally left out because he an his muthaiga-DP golfing buddies came late after Christmas of that year after a drinking spree and started urinating at our FORD bus. . . The rest is History


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Page one has it all. Moi didn't want the coup planners to be arrested not because the matter could be dealt with internally but simply because he wanted the coup to go on as planned. The question is why?? With the little analytical skills which we gained in 2009 from reading Utegano and An enemy of the people your analysis won't be far from the truth.

What I'd like to know is why things in this country seemed to go wrong.. from what I and many 'shudren' gathered to have been brought about by the coup.

There was Nyayo this and Nyayo that, the guy was all over physically putting up gabions.. we even had a Kenyan car! Pioneer something. Now, if he was in the know, and from what I gather from the replies in this thread, wanted to play politics/games and 'finish' his enemies.. Why then, and after achieving what he wanted, did the economy and way of life go down the drain?

Did the whole ndlama make him eccentric? And how so if he was on the know?

Let me do it in 3.

1. Politics and history are always mythical

2. History is always being written

3. Now, thanks to technology, history can be written in collaboration and en mass.

Sasa ata wewe umekuwa recruited na tycho? Hii wazua itakuwa ni kuwaza tu.

How would it be?