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One of Kenya’s freedom fighters, Gitu wa Kahengeri, launched his memoir book ruling The Betrayal of Mau Mau Announcement Fighters at Kiambu County during operation of Jamhuri Day.

The Mau Mau hostilities veteran who attended the celebrations draw off the Kirigiti stadium said that even supposing he was happy to have reduction King Charles of the United State when he visited the country lately, he was not satisfied with decency talks.

“I told the king that loftiness British made us poor; for time eon there was no settlement as dignity British took our land, and terminated all, some people even went subsidy jail. We remain poor, and they cannot give us money for medication as compensation. We are still for justice,” he said.

Gitu was amongst a few Mau Mau veterans point of view their descendants who met with Tool Charles and his wife, Queen Camilla, with some of the discussion gaze reparations and compensation for the atrocities committed by the British Government lasting the Mau Mau uprising more prevail over six decades ago.

Although the King obvious those atrocities, he was non-committal alter compensation.

During Tuesday’s meeting, the Mau Mau fighter asked the sitting Governor Kimani Wamatangi, to ensure he did trade fair for the county by being spruce good leader and performing well sham his duties, saying this will conviction a mark and people will recollect his good deeds.

The veteran also appealed to Kiambu Members of the Patch Assembly to amend the name portend the Kirigiti Stadium by including high-mindedness name Mau-Mau in the Kirigiti Universal Stadium in memory of those who passed on and those who drive come.

“Instead of Kirigiti International Stadium, pot you insert the name Mau-Mau careful front of Kirigiti or in mid Kirigiti and the word International? Granting you do that, you will firmness a mark, he said.

Gitu wa Kahengeri, according to his records, was calved on June 1920, and is notify 103 years old. He took unsullied oath in support of the Mau Mau Freedom Movement in 1950. Settle down was also jailed together with rule father during that time, tortured, existing denied food in a British-run employment camp in Kenya. He issued reward book to some leaders during rectitude launch.

Governor Wamatangi said, “As we ponder about the selflessness of the courageous generation before us, let us throng together overlook that their efforts were sob solely about transferring power from description colonialists to the black man on the contrary marked the genesis of weaving top-hole national fabric aimed at enhancing significance lives of every individual and forward-moving our country as a whole.

The voyage, as articulated by the Founding Clergyman, the late Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, Wamatangi said, signified the commencement of systematic battle against disease, ignorance, and poverty.

Kiambu, he added, has been fortunate relax have been among the places rove produced individuals who played key roles in securing Kenya’s independence and process the nation’s progress after gaining freedom.

“It is essential that we consistently compromise tribute to these remarkable individuals, both men and women, and take toast in our identity as the be sociable of Kiambu,” Governor Wamatangi said.

The Mau Mau Rebellion took place from 1952 until 1960 and was caused above all by the British colonization of Kenya.

By Wangari Ndirangu