{UAH} Fw: JOMO KENYATTA COULD NOT POSSIBLY BE KABALEGA'S SON.

On Friday, 7 March 2014, 12:19, Deo Kasansula <dkasansula@yahoo.com> wrote:

Bwana Mirima

I am sorry to disprove what you very much want to believe. However, everything you have written below about Kabalega being hospitalised in Kenya actually was true but it happened in 1899 when he was being taken (with Kabaka Mwanga) to exile in the Seychelles. By 1899 Jomo Kenyatta was already born. This is why I maintain that the years just do not add up to make Kabalega the father of Jomo.

The official position of the Kenyatta family and the Kenya Government is one of silence on the matter, unless you can prove otherwise.

Deo Kasansula 

On Friday, 7 March 2014, 11:23, yowaana nyamutale <ynyamutale@gmail.com> wrote:

Deo Kasansula

Thank you for throwing some light on the subject of Kabaleega being the father of Jomo Kenyatta. However your arguments are based on,"possibilities....probabilities".  You are not saying anything with 100 % certainty

Have you ever bothered to read British Army dispatches from the war front military dispatches in Gatundu which state that."when Kabaleega was hospitalised at Gatundu military hospital he was under the care of a Kikuyu nurse whom he befriended and she bore a son who was put under the custody of his uncle and that child happened to be Jomo Kenyatta?

That report appeared in Kenya press and nobody has challenged it to date.

By the way, do you know the official position of the Kenyatta family on this subject? Can you quote it now? How about the official position of the Kenya Government on this subject? Can you quote them for us on this forum?

Henry ford Mirima

On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Deo Kasansula <dkasansula@yahoo.com> wrote:

At one time, Google had stated that Jomo Kenyatta was officially born on 20 October 1893 in Gatundu. There is a lot of doubt about this date as (according to Google) "his parents were almost certainly not literate, and no formal birth records of native Africans were kept in Kenya at that time."

 

At the time of his death in 1978 (and having been President of Kenya for 15 years) he looked like a very old man of at least 90 years of age, which implies that he was born even before 1893. However, even if we were to rely on his official birthday of 20 October 1893, Jomo Kenyatta was at least 6 years old when Mwanga II and Kabalega went through Kenya in 1899 on their way to exile in the Seychelles.

 

In the late 1880s, Kabalega was busy resisting the British who were trying to colonise his kingdom. Further to that, for a period of at least 5 years before 1899, Kabalega was involved in a war against the British in Bunyoro, hundreds of miles away from Gatundu. There is no way he could have left Bunyoro to go to Kenya during this turbulent period in his kingdom.

 

All the above proves, beyond reasonable doubt, that Kabalega could NOT have been the father of Jomo Kenyatta. The years just do not add up, however way one looks at the details.

Deo Kasansula