Curtain Comes Down On Man Who Lied Against Kenyatta
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on December 12, 2008
Red dust swirls into the morning air as soil is scooped from the final resting place for a man whose death marks the end of an emotive chapter in the history of the Independence struggle.
To the villagers of Muthurumbi, Gatundu, Thika District, the mound of soil that covered the remains of Rawson Mbugua Macharia on Thursday was the final reminder of a man they considered anathema, more like Christians consider Judas Iscariot.
On Thursday, he was free from the scorn and hostile glances that had followed him for nearly six decades since he confessed that he had lied to nail Kenyatta, under financial and other inducement by the colonial administration.
When he was returning, walking on the busy Thika Road, he was hit by a motorbike and died.
For a man who, according to his family, was never admitted to hospital even for a day, it was shocking that he died from a seemingly simple looking mishap.
A week before Kenya celebrated its 45th birthday, the man, who wrote a chapter of its history has died, having seen the full circle of post-independence history that he played a part in forming.
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