Minneapolis spokesman., 1962-11-02
Focus On
Africa
Conflicting Views
Develop In Reports
OF Kenya Terrorism
BY EDDIE L. MADISON, JR.

While Europeans in Kenya
report an 18-month-old resurg-
ence of terrorism" in the
country, a well-known Kenya
minister has urged an investig-
alton of allegations that Eur
opeans had bribed Kikuyu
tribesmen to join forest gangs,
take oaths and make guns in a bid
to delay Kenya's independence
from Britain.
Tom Mboya, minister of labor
and general secretary Of the Kenya
African National Union (KANU),
disclosed that he has asked De-
fense Minister Sir Anthony Swami
for a full investigation into the
allegations. He said the allegations
were being fostered by the fact
that most Of the homemade guns
in question had been found on
European farms.
Mboya, who was also quoted in
the press as saying that the Brit
ish were stirring up trouble, has
been criticized for his initial re-
marks, first made in the European
farming area at Molo and Moro,
and later in a press statement.
He was strongly criticized by
Masinde Muliro, vice president of
the Kenya African Democratic
Union (KADU), w. Wabuge, also
a KADU member, and L.R.M. We'll
wood, a member of the Kenya
coalition government, which KA-
NU and KADU formed after talks
earlier this year in London.
Said WILDWOOD: II ask him
(Mboya) what evidence he has got,
and from what tainted source he
got it - perhaps from the Land
Freedom Army. I wish to know
whether he is speaking for the
Government or himself.
IF it was for himself, how is it
possible in a Government with
Cabinet responsibilities, for one
member of it to make a speech
containing dangerous allegations
that are not supported by the Gov
ernment as a whole. Unfortunately
he has not withdrawn his state
ments as I hoped, but added to
them :"
Replying to Criticisms at the
Legislative council, Mboya said
that he stood by the speeches in
Molo and Moro and he had no
apologies to make. He added that
he had not made the allegations
himself, but he had brought to the
surface that they existed as ru-
mors in the Rift Valley. He said he
had heard of these allegations dur
ing his visit to the area.
Mohamed Ahmed Koor, AMP
Correspondent in Nairobi, Kenya,
quoted Mboya as saying: II con-
sidered it my duty to bring this
out publicly. There was dissatis-
faction with security measures in
the Rift Valley province"
Mboya continued: 1T is not i'm
portant I should be corrected If I
was wrong about any of the hap
penings in the Rift Valley. 1t is the
people in the Rift Valley who must
be assured if the allegations or
true or false.
He added that the allegations
included strong charges that there
was an interrogation camp at Molo
where people were thought to have
been beaten up and that police
and Eurpeans are implicated in
some Of the present Land Freedom
Army or gun running in the Rift
Valley"
Jomo Kenyatta, minister Of
state for economic planning and
president of KANU, has made
clear his support of Mboya's ac-
tions. IT have been to the Rift Val
ley and the rumors and allegations
are very, very strong. It is very
serious that the whole country
should be concerned with rumors
which are going on In the Rift
Valley at the moment"
Meanwhile, Europeans in Kenya
have reported what they call re-
turn of the Mau Mau movement
They say foresters have, found
evidence Of Kiluyu cathing cere-
monies - bahama leaf arches and
animals entrails-in the vast Mau
forest, which sprawls more than 80
miles to the north, west and south
in the Kenya highlands.
They charge that 5000 Kikuyu
who live in the forest, cultivating
subsistence crops in clearings, are
taking oaths to support the Land
Freedom Army, - described as the
one-time militant wing Of the Mau
Mau, led by a former Mau Mau
leader and dedicated to seizing
European farms in the Rift Valley.