PAGE 15-A HERO OR VILLAIN- BOTH SIDES OF JOHN MICHUKI GENERAL KAGO WA MBOKO Kangema area was greatly affected by Mau Mau war.Many died and detained in different parts of the area. Some men were castrated with snipers and soda bottles inserted in women genitalia.This never broke the spirit of people. Those who were left in the villages beared the blunt of everything as they were subjected to screening, denouncing Mau mau oath and forced labour referred to as kamiuno or communal work.Dissapearance of another kamatimu(colonial sympathizers) from location 9 Kanyenyaini joshua mbui who was michuki friend irritated michuki and all internally displaced of kanyenyaini were subjected to dig a trench connecting mathioya north and kayahwe rivers more than ten kilometers long along a terrain.They were using crude tools like jembes aand kiondo to carry the soil away under supervision of michuki.He was result oriented as the trench was dug and connected the two rivers but it had no purpose and use.Many broke their backs.Today the trench is used as a road that connects kibutha girls and kanyenyaini-kangema road and the buying center nearby is known as mutaro kikuyu word for trench.There is an old man known as wakarogo who is a tea farmer but no family.During digging of the trench he was spotted by michuki and declared impotent to date.The other remaining relic of colonial labor under supervision of michuki is rurie stadium in kiriani.These was dug by women whom their husbands were in detention camps.Those still arrive complains of serious backaches as they remember how they were whipped and the unlucky ones never had an opportunity in getting their own children.Life at the colonial reserves was hard. Majority of men were either in detention camps,in the forest fighting or the lucky ones were homeguards.Only the old who were spared from the torture.Home guards had a lee way of siring children with widowed, and those their husbands were rotting in prison. Meanwhile hunt for general kago wa mboko continued and a heavy bounty was placed on anyone who was to facilitate his arrest or whoever will bring his head as a soveirnoir.Propaganda continued to be disseminated by the colonialists through the illiterate kinyona chief njiiri wa karanja with low flying aeroplanes mounted with loudspeakers calling people to surrender and renounce Mau Mau oath. Avenues of providing Mau Mau with food were narrowing as link between them and the villages were tightened. Natives were warned with consequences of instant death if caught.
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