From: Kalonso Musyoka
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:49:29 -0800 (PST)

Kenyatta in trouble 22 years after his death
New African, Jun 2000
Jomo Kenyatta’s grave in the precincts of parliament is given a 24-hour guard – but not his name. Twenty-two years after his death, Kenya’s founding father is under attack from politicians who are even calling on his family to account for its wealth. John Kamau reports from Nairobi.
At the northern edge of Kenya’s parliament building lies a magnificent mausoleum guarded around the clock by armed soldiers. This is where Jomo Kenyatta was buried in 1978. But even as the soldiers go about their duties with reverence, Kenyan politicians are attacking the founding father’s long gone leadership with venom, accusing him of corruption and silencing his opponents.
And while the fray goes on in political circles, many business people have stopped hanging his portrait on the walls of their premises. Slowly, the once revered Mzee is losing his place in the affections of his people.
Recently Raphael Wanjala, an MP, called for the withdrawal of the soldiers guarding the grave. “There is no point guarding a dead body,” he said. “What economic benefit do we get when soldiers continue to guard a dead corpse? [sic] “, he asked, pretending not to know the tourist dollar being earned by countries elsewhere who guard the graves of their heroes.
Over the years, the Kenyan currency notes that bore Kenyatta’s portrait have been replaced with those of President Arap Moi, and the coins are also slowly being phased out.
In recent months, politicians branding Kenyatta as a tribalist who got rid of his opponents have been pressurising the deceased president’s family to account for his wealth. It is the first time Kenyatta is being ridiculed in public to such extremes.
“I don’t know why all these questions. I don’t know why we should disturb his soul,” says Bernard Hinga, Kenya’s first black commissioner of police. But because he ripped off the Kenyans and left it for his son – Uhuru, is the whole reason why Kenyans are unhappy. Uhuru the son was born with a golden spoon in his mouth and therefore never lived the true Kenyan child life. Had he lived that live, he would not use his

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