Kenya: Njenga Karume dies of prostate cancer ? African Press ...

Posted by African Press International on February 25, 2012

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Njenga?Karume has died, 83 years old. He was suffering of prostate cancer. He was a businessman and?politician.

Karume was one of the Change the constitution leaders who wanted to block former president Daniel Moi from ascending to power.

When they realised Mzee?Jomo Kenyatta was getting sick due to old age, the politician led by Karume initiated a campaign to change the constitution.

The then attorney general Charles Njonjo ordered their arrest and prosecution charging them with treason for having imagined the death of President Kenyatta.

Kenyatta was Karume?s?friend. He saved him from prosecution and ordered that Karume and his followers desist from campaigning for the change of the constitution.

Kenyatta was satisfied with his then vice President Daniel Moi. When Kenyatta died peacefully in his sleep, Moi took over power and ruled Kenya for 24 years (from 1978 through 2002). Kenyatta led the country from December 1963 to 1978.

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