Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-03-11
kenya Governor
Delays Release
Of Jomo kenyatta


rick Renison declared Wednesday
that Jomo Kenyatta will not be
released until Kenya's new gov
eminent is working WE'LL"
African Commerce Minister Ju-
Illus Kiano promptly announced
he plans to resign in protest.
Sir Patrick made the announce
ment in a radio broadcast a few
hours after African nationalist
leader Tom Mbyoa demanded i'm
mediate freedom for the convicted
Mau Mau terrorist leader and
warned his release must come
"before there is a head-on clash
between us and the Governor"
Sir Patrick also announced he
is transferring Mr.. Kenyatta from
Lodwar in remote Northern Prov
ince where he has been living in
restriction since his release from
a seven-year prison sentence in
April, 1859.
He said he will move Mr.. Ken
yatta to Maralal, about ITO miles
north of Nairobi, and permit Wis
itors to see him-including ac-
credited newsmen.
Mr.. Kenyatta, a flamboyant
personality with a gift for SPELL
binding oratory, became a hero
to Africans after his return to
Kenya in 1916 following a 49,
year stay in England which in
cluded the study of anthropology
at London University.
He was arrested in 1854 dur
ing the six-year Mau Mau emery
ency.
The emergency ended in jan
uary, 1860, shortly before a Lon
don conference provided new vot-
ing arrangements for Kenya's
Legislative Council or Parliament.
Sir Patrick made his broadcast
in the wake of elections under
the new arrangements which pro-
duced an African majority in the
council for the first time.
The broadcast brought angry
reaction from leaders of all Afri-
can parties.
"A Kenya government in 1861
without Kenyatta is unthinkable,"
said African nationalist leader
Mwali Khaki.
Commerce Minister Kiano, after
announcing his resignation, said
the two leading Authenticated
parties would refuse to form a
government unless Sir Patrick
agreed to Mr.. Kenyatta's release.
Mr.. Mboya and other African
nationalist leaders, who met with
Sir Patrick after the broadcast,
said their aim was still immediate
and unconditional release of Mr..
Kenyatta.
However, the Governor was re-
ported still standing firm in the
face of the African demand.
"Tn spite of the great difficulty
of. conscience after the Mau Mau
horrors" Sir Patrick said, lit is
not my view that Jomo Kenyatta
should be kept in restriction in
definitely"
But he added, II do not propose
to release him until the new
Kenya government is working
WELL"
Both Mr.. Mboya's Kenya At
rican National Union (KANU)
and the rival Kenyan African
Democratic Union (KADU) want
Mr.. Kenyatta to serve as chief
minister in the new Kenya gov
eminent.
Sir Patrick said he did not in
tend to release him until / think
that the security risk can be ac-
cepted and contained and that the
danger, which his return would
bring to the economy and admin
istration and to uor whole con-
stitutional progress toward early
independence, has been minimized.
81 care for Kenya too much to
contemplate his stepping from
restriction to q position Of au-
thority. The people who form the
electorate and the political lead
ers and the world at large must
be allowed to- see him as he is
now and see his effect on the coun-
try and its politics"
Sir Patrick said Mr.. Kenyatta
is not eligible under constitutional