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Arap Moi also virtually eliminated the illegal killing of game and the smuggling of ivory and coffee long tolerated by Kenyatta. Says one villager from Jomo's home town of Gatundu: "Everyone likes the President because he has stopped the outlaws, the poachers and coffee smugglers. In Kenyatta's day, you could see a big man with a number of jobs. Nowadays it is one man, one job, and we are all equal...
When a black Kenyan these days says, "I'm going to Gatundu for a cup of tea," his friends know that it may be a cover-up for something else. Gatundu is the residence of Kenya's President Jomo Kenyatta, and "tea drinking" is really oath swearing. Unlike the tribesmen who swore secret oaths to join the Mau Mau rebellion against foreigners in the 1950s, Kikuyu by the thousands are swearing oaths against fellow Kenyans in the President's backyard...
Despite the secrecy, a crowd of 2,000 blacks was on hand to greet Kenyatta when he got home to Gatundu. Men had shinnied up cypress, mango and pawpaw trees for a better look; Kikuyu women showed up with their faces and bodies ceremonially daubed with bright paint. They banged on drums, cheered and sang Jomo Kenyatta Is Coming Home At Last, a song especially composed for the occasion. The Burning Spear (a Kikuyu title for the bravest warrior of all) acknowledged the greeting with an imperious wave of his horsetail fly whisk, then briskly got down to the business...
...time being Kenyatta remains restricted to his three-acre plot at Gatundu. disqualified from holding political office because of his conviction. But he promises that as soon as he is free to move he will stump the colony. ("My message will be one of unity.") The British hint that they will be watching closely before deciding whether or not to restore Kenyatta's eligibility to hold political office. But since they have promised Kenya independence-possibly by next summer-their control over the Burning Spear is at best temporary. British Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod himself has said: "As time...
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