The historical account of an eye witness account of the Kisumu Massacre which left close to 100 people including school children dead.

Report By Leo Odera Omolo In Kisumu City.

Many Kenyans from all walks of life have heaped a lot of praise for the lat Dr Njoroge Mungai the former Kenya’s Minister for Foreign Affairs in the post-independence cabinet of the founding President, the late Mzee Jomo Kenyatta.

Dr Mungai who passed away early this week in a Nairobi hospital after a long illness also doubled as Mzee Kenyatta personal doctor and was very close to the corridor of power during the early part of Kenya’s independence. In October 1969, he was still serving as the country’s minister for Defense during the Kisumu incident.

However, I have some observation to make about this departed soul – – one of Kenya’s leaders in the protracted war and struggle for the country’s political independence.

Many older Kisumu residents have yet to come through and forgave the late DR. Mungai allegedly fired the first short which sparked off the Kisumu massacre of 1969.The shots which rung out of his hand gun felled two men and a young school boy before everything broke lose followed by mayhem.

As an eye witness I was standing just about 15 meters from the main presidential podium at the New Nyanza Genera hospital; when the incident took place.

AS free-lance journalist I drove my old Volkswagen Beatle car up to Boyani market in Vihiga because it was announced earlier that President Kenyatta was expected to access Kisumu town via Majengo, Boyani and Kiboswa markets in western Province. I joined the presidential convoy and drover slowly behind them.

From Kiboswa market things were quiet and looked normal with isolated shouts of “Dume Dume Dummeee” however, things changed as Kenyatta’s convoy snaked around a