Gitu wa kahengeri biography of michael

  • With Mzee Gitu Wa Kahengeri (one of the Kenyan Mau Mau veterans) during the National Heroes Council board meeting being held at Naivasha.
  • Mau Mau general Ndungu wa Gicheru who died last week is immortalised as one of the most fearless Mau Mau fighters and sharp shooters in the ranks of the.
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    Mau Mau Freedom Fighters Foundation was incorporated in the year 2022 in Kenya as a Trust. It is established with Trust funds that include donor funds, endowment Trust funds, and investment Trust funds. The founders pursue its broad goals, vision, mission, objectives, activities, and aspirations designed and formulated for the implementation of the Mau Mau Freedom Fighters Foundation.

    The Founder Trustees are Hon. Gitu wa Kahengeri, Michael Mungai Kimani, Ansselimina Rwamba Nyaga, Paul Angwech Oigo and Nyokabi John Kimani.

    The Founder Trustees have the authority to administer and manage the properties and resources advanced to the Foundation. They are empowered to raise funds, accept subscriptions, and mobilize resources through investments, donations, gifts, and bequests to the Foundation.

    MauMau Freedom Fighters Foundation Secretary General Hon. Gitu Wa Kahengeri, OGW

    OBJECTIVES OF THE MAUMAU FREEDOM FIGHTERS FOUNDATION

    The main objective of the MauMau Freedom Figh

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    Fearless general who shot down British warplanes

    By Wainaina Ndung’u

    Kenya: Mau Mau general Ndungu wa Gicheru who died gods week fryst vatten immortalised as one of the most fearless Mau Mau fighters and skarp shooters in the ranks of the liberation army.

    Praised bygd many of his peers for sparande their lives through his acumen in shooting down killer British bomb dropping planes, Gicheru was captured in 1956 after almost six years in the jungle, having been one of the earliest youths to leave for the forest to launch the war of liberation.

    According to accounts of many Mau Mau veterans, Gicheru brought down several colonial war planes with his Mark 4 gevär stolen from the home of a colonial settler in the then so-called “White Highlands”.

    “After the heroic attack on the farm, the rifle became his close companion and would spara hundreds of lives in the forest which would have been wiped out by the deadly arsenal in the planes,” says 81-year-old Mathenge

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    Mau Mau veteran Gitu wa Kahengeri says King Charles owes him an apology

    More than six decades after Gitu wa Kahengeri was jailed, tortured and denied food in a British-run labour camp in Kenya, the anti-colonial fighter says he is still waiting for justice.

    Now in his nineties, Gitu has ramped up his push for an apology and compensation from the British government ahead of a visit by King Charles III to the East African country next week.

    Gitu left school as a teenager after a disagreement with the principal over his anti-colonial beliefs, later joining the feared Mau Mau rebels as a young man.

    For nearly eight years the guerrillas -- often with dreadlocked hair and wearing animal skins -- terrorised colonial communities, launching attacks from bases in remote forests.

    "We fought to be free because the colonial settlers had grabbed all the fertile land and made it their own," Gitu told AFP during an interview at his home surrounded by pineapple farms outside the town of Thi

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