Kiambu maumau war veteran have asked Kiambu County government to recognize them by building a monument in memory of the lost lives and spilled blood during the independence war.
Led by Gitu wa Kahengeri, a former freedom fighter who went on to serve as an MP for Juja soon after Independence, he is also the association’s secretary general, the freedom fighters across the county asserted that they suffered greatly through the application of draconian laws, detention without trial imprisonment, torture and being confined to the notorious emergency villages, rape and beating of women, denial of the enjoyment of human rights and the deliberate extermination of huge populations.
They said that the government has forgotten them and their contribution towards the growth of the nation saying that they ought to be recognized as heroes in the modern Kenya.
“We ask that Kiambu County Assembly appreciate and recognize all wars of resistance waged by the ancestors and those who followed in their footsteps and note their heroic deeds and record them for posterity through an act of Kiambu county assembly,” Wa Kehegeri said.