ODINGA'S REACTION TO GHANA COUP

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• Collection: FOIA Collection
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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: September 29, 2017
• Case Number: F-2016-02190
• Publication Date: February 28, 1966

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1. AT
1000 ON 24 FEBRUARY 1966,
KENYA VICE PRESIDENT OGINGA ODINGA
HELD A MEETING AT HIS OFFICE TO DISCUSS THE GHANA COUP. AMONG THOSE
PRESENT WERE MINISTER OF FOREIGN AF AIRS JOSEPH MURUMBI, MINISTER OF IN-
FORMATION, AND BROADCASTING RICHARD ACHIENG ONEKO AND THE RECENTLY SUS-
PENDED MINISTER OF HOUSING AND SOCIAL SERVICES PAUL NGEI. ALL PRESENT
WERE DESPONDENT OVER THE EVENTS IN HANA. MURUMBI SAID THE PLACE FOR
THE NEXT COUP COULD BE TANZANIA AND THAT THE AMERICANS AND THE BRITISH
WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE COUP IN GHANA. ODINGA DISAGREED WITH THIS
SAYING THAT IT WAS THE AFRICANS THE SELVES AND THAT POLITICIANS WOULD
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NEVER BE APPRECIATED BY THE MASSES. ODINGA SAID THEY SHOULD ALL RE-
SIGN SINCE POLITICIANS LOSE OUT IN THE END ANYWAY.
2. LATER IN THE DAY, ODINGA HAD A SMALL LUNCHEON AT HIS NAIROBI
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HOUSE WITH ONEKO. AT THAT TIME, ODINGA SAID THAT THE UNITED STATES
AND THE SOVIET UNION WERE WORKING TOGETHER TO RECONQUER AFRICA. ACCORD-
ING TO ODINGA, AFRICA'S. ONLY HOPE IS COMMUNIST CHINA AND THE ONLY GOOD
LEADERS LEFT ON THE CONTINENT WERE FASSER AND NYERERE. ODINGA SAID
THAT HE HAD SPOKEN WITH NYERERE ON 4 FEBRUARY BUT REVEALED NO DETAILS
OF THE CONVERSATION.
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