Have you ever wondered why the sons and daughters of the colonial chiefs and guards who were collaborators live a good life while those of the MAU MAU fighters live in abject poverty?

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It should be known that the colonialists reached a point that they knew they had 2 leave Kenya since they couldn't handle the Mau Mau war & the world was moving toward accepting independent Africa.However,the colonialists devised an evil scheme that still eats Kenya 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 & political class whom state power could be entrusted in the post-colonial era.This explains why their children & grandchildren still hold majority of important positions in govt or in the private sector supported by state.

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.

On Sunday 2nd march of 1975 (46 years ago today) the then firebrand legislator for nyandarua North popularly known as J.M kariuki was reported missing.Ten days later his body would be found at the Nairobi city mortuary

WHO KILLED JM KARIUKI? Get your answers in the;
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JM Kariuki, joined the Mau Mau as a young man, and when independent Kenya became a reality, he got into government.His life was reported to have been shrouded in controversy from when he was young and until his death.

While they initially were good friends with Jomo Kenyatta, the two were to fall out eventually after JM questioned the elite chokehold on resources in the form of unbridled annexation of land.

Kariuki's cry to the ruling class in the 70s to limit the vast lands that they held at the expense of the poor endeared him to the local Kenyan, but it was also what turned him into an enemy with the ruling class.

Journalist & historian Martin Meredith,who covered JM murder for the Sunday Times in 1975,described him as "a playboy",not a "particularly admirable character" but gifted with "an unerring popular touch".His criticism of Kenyatta govt just made him earn some powerful enemies.

THE FIRST BETRAYAL

The betrayal of the Mau Mau fighters by Jomo Kenyatta was so loud.

From freedom fighters to terrorists.

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As derived from "The Price Of Freedom" by Wanyiri Kihoro.

Did you know due to biting poverty after 9 years in prison Kenyatta's first house was constructed through contributions by Kenyans? Did you know Kenyans bought him his first land after prison?

After he was released from prison,Kenyatta's return to politics was planned by the colonial govt.governor Renison facilated Kenyatta's return to politics on dec 1961 by amending Legco legislations that barred any person imprisoned for more than 2 years to participate in politics.

That law was amended to allow Kenyatta (who had struck a deal to protect the white settlers) to become the new prime minister after the second elections where KANU was poised to win for the second time.

When he arrived in Kiambu from detention, the people however saw the "same" Kenyatta emerging out of the prison,only that he had aged and had been driven into abject poverty due to imprisonment.