I heard that on that night is when my mum was just about to bring another new life on earth 'All the roads were closed but, my mum AND dad were stranded facing their own death plus that of the unborn. miraculously a lady from nowhere accompanied them and she begged the officers manning the major roads in Nairobi to allow them pass to the hospital. imagine they were allowed and they traveled from maringo to pumwani and she gave birth thru C-s. thank you mum and dad and the unknown lady from nowhere.

August 1st 1982, Nairobi, Kenya. Attempted coup by elements of the Kenya Air Force resulted in the studios of VOK being occupied and these are some of the announcements broadcast live by the rebel forces. the main speaker is Senior Private Hezekiah Ochuka, one of the instigators, who subsequently fled to Tanzania in a military plane, was repatriated, and executed on May 17, 1987. Finally, a short comment by University of Nairobi student chairman Titus Andungosi. He died in prison in 1988. This recording was made on cassette radio at Starehe Boy's Centre in Nairobi on Sunday August 1st, 1982. The tape was neglected for many years. It was digitized and published in 2011 as a historical record.

Listening to this announcement, and actually it now sounds like a *Radio Lesson*!

To all those commenting they cannot hear Leonard Mambo Mbotela's voice and that the clip is fake. No,I witnessed it happen and listened to the very same announcements you are listening to now. That was not Leonard Mambo,it was Hezekiah Ochuka Rabala the leader of the coup plotters who was later repatriated from Tanzania,charged in court and later hanged. Terror was the word in Nairobi at the time. The shops ran out of all dry foods, you could not get even a packet of biscuits. I was living in Eastleigh section two at the time and I recall some neighbourhood youth ganging up to go loot shoes at the Tender Touch Shoe shop which used to be at the end of Tom Mboya street. They ran all the way to town and were busy looting when one of the youth's head burst like a water melon,taken out by a marksman. The rest did not know how they made it back to Eastleigh,shaken,incoherent and trembling. Kenyans,I witnessed the whole thing as a 22 year old and this is something we should avoid at all costs whatever the circumstances. Let's have and solve our differences in courts of law.

@jonathankaranja5857

3 жыл бұрын

A question please,, wasn't Leonard Mbotela kidnapped at gunpoint from his home and taken to the studio in the wee hours of dawn? Then, didn't Ochuka himself eject the shaken reporters from the studio and go on to make the coup announcement himself?

@tomlepski8306

3 жыл бұрын

@@jonathankaranja5857 Correct.

@patrickmasai1141

Жыл бұрын

I do recall that Leonard Mambo Mbotela made that definitive announcement although I was just a babe then🏹...

@TheRonoTV2024

Жыл бұрын

@@jonathankaranja5857 Leonard did the swahili announcement.

@kadzo6614

8 ай бұрын

I was breastfeeding 😂😂

i wasn't born at that time but my mum was a student in uon, she told me it was a hectic time and it was really bad. GOD BLESS KENYA THE COUNTRY I LOVE

2024 who is still listening anyway I wish the coup was successful Hawa wanasiasa hutubeba ndogo saana

Listening to this for the 1st time this August 1 2023. Was just 3months old when it was first broadcasted, grievances seem the same: cost of living, tax, corruption

good to find this in the archives , it was a tale to me

The initial announcement was quite pathetic,however the issues that were aired later were legit.This nation has fed the bellies of the few and sacrificed the many,who blindly live day by day,paying taxes and never benefiting from independence years later.

Sadly the situation hasn't been any better todate!

Only just came across this - we were there and almost missed the event. We heard shots in the morning but thought it was rifle practice. After fixing up my car I headed off with my four year old son to look for milk and onions(!!). We went first to Karen (shut - well, it was a Sunday!), nearly drove to Langata (!) but I changed my mind and drove to Adams Arcade, then Hurlingham (!) in search of something being open. On the way back from Hurlingham a couple of drivers flashed lights at me and I recall thinking 'This is a bit like the day after the coup in Uganda - quiet streets, shops shut. Anyway I found milk and onions at a kiosk and didn't find out about the coup till a colleague rang me a couple of hours later... I worked for the Flying Doctors Services at the time and when she said people were 'shooting everywhere' I offered to come down too the airport and help with emergency flights - that's when she mentioned she was hiding under the bed!

@harrischevaiamunga2931

11 ай бұрын

You need to do a TV interview

I went for a drive with my mum on the second day . I was 14 big and fit and the army check point stopped us . gun pointed in my face while I pulled out my school id . they thought I might be airforce on the run . very scary uncertain time looting and shooting were the norm . Afterwards when it all died down if you did not have receipts for any new stereo , tv or white goods they could be taken off you . this was way before mobile phones of course and also we only had tv from 530 pm to midnight . the only way you knew what was going on was from the radio broadcasts and this is why the radio station was such a strategic item to own . people only knew what to do and where to go by listening to vok radio.

Wow!!! Luving this History.

we were living at juja road at the time this coup happened the army jets were flying so low above us it looked like a circus we didn't eat white ugali that week food was scarce, looters stole all kinds of things including toilets😫the man talking called Ochuka was our choir leader at the SDA church at kariokor social hall those days

Pity that the issues raised still dog our country nearly 40 years later

We went downtown on the second day (I had a tour group coming that I wanted to cancel) and it was a terrible mess; blood, broken glass, etc. although bodies had all been removed.. Kenyatta shut down.. no flights.. thank goodness the Post Office was open and I was able to wire a telegram.. on the way back to the Boulevard, a bunch of shots rang out in Jeevanjee Gardens.. we hit the deck but did not see anything...

notice the martial music. At this very moment, I was in the Boulevard Hotel, below the museum. very scary 3 days.. I recorded sounds of shooting from River Road (I think), up near the French Embassy, and from what sounded like the around the Globe roundabout. when the Army came down Museum Hill, we saw them excute a guy I assume was an Air Force guy on the bridge near the roundabout. an airforce guy was shot in the Boulevard parking area, and his body was there for at least 24 hours.. never forget this.

@LongDrivesAtNight5150

8 жыл бұрын

+Robert Drewes Myself, parents, and my bro were on our way to Kibwezi that morning. The radio didn't work in our car at the time and we had no idea what was happening. On the Nairobi-Mombasa highway, there were no trucks, no tourists buses...and we all thought, wow seems quiet. Got to Kibwezi, the friends we were visiting were all shocked that we made it and wondered why we even bothered coming. Anyways, drove back to Machakos without any problems.

Listening between timestamp 08:34 to 09:13, the voice resembles that of Dr. Khalwale..rem, he was a medical student at UON around the time of the coup..

@thomasm5796

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds like him...

@markkiplagat5694

4 жыл бұрын

Thats khalwale no doubt about it

@realkenyan5671

3 жыл бұрын

I think so too

I was 8 years my father was working in the army we were staying at lanet barracks.. ... 3rd battalion was sent to the city the stories we heard after they came back was heartrentching

This should b replayed in our current times....i think we are worse off but this is a show of how kenya was plundered since before ...now the sons of the plunderers are still our leaders. ...shame

@BwireVincent

7 жыл бұрын

Don't forget, the plunderers hijacked our independence and made sure that the true heroes (Freedom Fighters), never lived to enjoy the fruits of the struggle ...

Who is that News Anchor with a heavy Luo accent?.. The coup was meant to fail from the word go..

Life was much better then .Today its very very terrible.The issues raised then still bedevil us today in an astonishing measure.Its like the country has been cursed.

Imagine this in America. Be a police officer, wake up, get your uniform on, and then listen to the radio to hear it say “Police should now assume the role of civilians. Nobody can move from one place to another.”

Please guys it's good to know were we are coming from.

The intentions were right, but the method wrong, the motherland still struggles with these issues today, maybe it would have been a good idea to let the coup be........

@veronicagituma8892

5 жыл бұрын

simon swach you don't know what you are talking abt. Do you know how many people lost their lives with two hrs? Never ever long for that anymore in your life, we have the constitution whereby you are given power to vote every five years, and we have multi- parties. I witnessed this, was in form 1.

@karosesmall5111

5 жыл бұрын

Wewe ni jaluo sio?

@jm-je4tl

3 жыл бұрын

You would've ended up like Uganda. Just 3 years prior, Amin entered by the gun and there was instability for the next 7 years. You can imagine 5 presidents in that time.

@georgepresley5120

Жыл бұрын

@@veronicagituma8892 Forty thousands people died, including the king and the queen, during the French revolution. I have never seen a peaceful revolution. The other solution is cowardice and continue languishing in your misery

I have only heard of this in stories as I was a baby when it happened. #history

The issues being discussed on here are what we face currently as a country 32 years on though I don't see a coup as a viable option

@wilsonkihugu8299

6 жыл бұрын

From the same character!

@theafricanwoman2818

6 жыл бұрын

Edward Kimuma Still the same issue. Were too coward to do anything about.

@cleidefernade9257

6 жыл бұрын

Edward Kimuma

@georgepresley5120

Жыл бұрын

The real coup should happen in people's minds. There's so much stupidity in Kenya

I was 8 years old. Wow.

How was it recorded? Amazing! We all didn't see it coming so how could someone know to record it, and on what?

@MrBabyStunna101

5 жыл бұрын

it is part of kbc archives

@sparrowdudu

5 жыл бұрын

This is a genuine recording made by me on a cassette recorder at Starehe Boy's Centre, on the day. We were listening to the radio, and when I started hearing gunshots in the street outside, I started recording. I will post more soon, with other announcements, for historical record.

Waah..interesting hearing this. My mum tells me it was really bad though.She was heavily pregnant

The student at the end later became dr bonny khalwale a politician in kenya

I was alone in Muthaiga home...Shooting from the forest toward the home...SCARY, one of the worst moment of my life!!!

@ARi-gp3cm

6 жыл бұрын

elisa where were your parents?

@cliveakali

2 жыл бұрын

Elisa. Can you give me a job ?

so kenyans started this suffering a long time ago,

Who is the commentator agreeing with the coup?

@kadzo6614

8 ай бұрын

Dr. Boni Khalwale 😂😂

i love this

Kenyan People Redemption Council

They were announcing in Kalenjin-scented English?! I thought it was Swahili.

I wish I knew I couldn't fight against the junta we defeated it and allowed moi in again for the worse until now we feel his impact. I wonder why leaders are struggling to go and shake moi's hand, does Gideon know his father well?

@andrewkiptoo3563

4 жыл бұрын

Nancy Wekesa The actions of that day turned Moi into a beast.Before then, he was more gentle than a house cat.Afterwards, he showed his hidden claws.

I was 8 years old when this happened. Now a grown up, first it sounds like those other African countries struggling with unstable leadership. But secondly the reasons highlighted for the coup sound genuine...leaves wondering whether Kenya missed an opportunity. But again, forceful take overs are not known to yield long lasting progressive and democratic societies. Probably it just had to happen as it did, and allow us...the children back then, to grow up and live through the pains of corruption and bad leadership and through reason, dialogue, civility, and unity fight our common enemy. I pray we shall overcome and free us from our very selves.

This isn't Leonard Mambo Mbotela talking. Who posted this thing!!!!???

@maureenkarugia9652

9 жыл бұрын

The rebels went and took over the broadcasting team at gun point.. that's one of their guys reading

@daniskiprosho

6 жыл бұрын

Anyiko Owoko mbotela was first instructed to read an already written statement and later the repels within military took over everything

@mura5615

6 жыл бұрын

that was ochuka the leader reading

@Jadedyxy

6 жыл бұрын

murah murah he was our choir leader at the SDA church in kariokor

@atribecalledken4853

6 жыл бұрын

VIP Access with Anyiko you're ignorant of history. That's the mastermind himself

That's Siege's grandfather saying cupiu!

LOL DID I HEAR IR RIGHT....MIGUNA MUGUNA'S VOICE

@julielilote3496

7 жыл бұрын

Peter M Miguna Miguna was a teenager at that time

@sylviamuthemba1538

6 жыл бұрын

Peter M 😂😂😂😂

@theadamsharland

6 жыл бұрын

Hahaha I thought that too! The way he says "corrupt" and paces his words is so alike

@kahuhowanjoki7227

6 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@jamesmwangi1803

5 жыл бұрын

At 9.00 sounds like Khalwale Bonny..

Raila kipii joshua bandia bondo express

I CAN HEAR MIGUNA MIGUNA SPEAK! AT THE END

@stevenmutumbo5477

5 жыл бұрын

hahahaha you wasn't even born not many here history shoul be told

@charlesspencercharplin2791

4 жыл бұрын

Viva

@kadzo6614

8 ай бұрын

That was Dr. Boni Khalwale

Thank GOD the country didnt go that direction.

This is soo cool

I think the military should take over now and the constitution should suspended because the country is more polarized than ever before

@billyongus344

2 жыл бұрын

Lakeside were betrayed by the so called circumsiced 'cowards'

2017 replay

kenya started suffering long time

@stephenwanjiku725

4 жыл бұрын

Waaaaaaaaaaaa hi kali

The same problems of kenya of 36 years ago are the same ones affecting us in 2018. Ochuka and his group should be commended for doing a great job .I hope another coup happens soon if that is all it takes to bring justice and equality to kenya. Luos are the real warriors of this country then and now.

Raila Odinga has always fought for democracy...I wonder why people keep talking of the frail Matiba who just made noise

@kasaraniupdates6497

4 жыл бұрын

Mefi

Should have let it happen instead of nipping it the bud. We're still in bondage 36 yrs down the line n the oppression is worse. Cost of living is ten times higher than it was in 82 and Kenyans yearn for change, even if thru a coup.

I was born 10 years later

@atlthisatlthat

Жыл бұрын

I was born 20 years later 😂😂😂😂

@poulroul3738

Жыл бұрын

no one cares

Holy shit !!!

Mt name noname proud to kntv

i thought it was Mambo Mbotela who announced tena kwa kiswahili not in English pwana

@TheGanguma

7 жыл бұрын

I thought so too.

@mura5615

6 жыл бұрын

mambo had announsed in the beginnjing and follow ups was by ochuka explaining their policy

@Flaytt744

6 жыл бұрын

The whole thing took about 2 Hours ..Mbotela announced at the very beginning then the rebels started their announcements..at the very end Mbotela announces things are back in order Moi is back at the helm

unfortunately the problems became much bigger for 28 years of that mzee's rule. it was worth shading blood

@omusaatsawatuukha2513

9 жыл бұрын

Benjamin Omolo Of Course it wasn't your blood - or Raila's blood.

@sultanmadhani6828

2 жыл бұрын

If not of your own. Or Raila's.

Raila was in the middle of this and he's still struggling.

@nationalist5422

5 жыл бұрын

Fuck him. The man is a parasite.

@dasdavid7057

5 жыл бұрын

Raila is a multimillionaire with government protection and followers willing to die for him, you are a broke nobody posting comments on KZread with no influence on anyone but your miserable self, who is really struggling?

@muyarodrickshibweche834

5 жыл бұрын

fix your broken wings then come back.

@friendingafrica1056

2 жыл бұрын

You don't know anything about Raila unless you read his book, The Flame of Freedom. He is explaining everything on this coup in that book. So stop being stupid and read!

Polisi ni raia nasema polisi ni raia !!!!wololo !!! eewooo

This coup could have messed Kenya badly.

I cannot imagine Raila was at the centre of all this, and kenyans are shouting Joshua tano fresh. When did we lose integrity? Afadhali Uhuru 20 tena.

@verahopondo7060

7 жыл бұрын

Forkojembe wewe ignorant

@agentprovocateur5157

6 жыл бұрын

it was not raila dont be foolish the perpetrators were executed in kamiti though the damage moi did to this country will requre many years to fix

@Robert-vc3zh

6 жыл бұрын

chrispin njiru you need to know history. Charles njonjo was at the centre of this.

@ARi-gp3cm

6 жыл бұрын

Sometimes ignorance is bliss

@kingsleyade6259

6 жыл бұрын

hehehe yet you are enjoying some of the fruits from this attempt ...are the reasons being aired by ochuka legit man

Who is here in 2065

@kariukithairu

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂 mbona haraka

captain ochuka

@andrewkiptoo3563

5 жыл бұрын

He was just a senior private.Not even a lance corporal

at least hii ilipatia moi adbu alikuwa amekalia watu sana

@blooddamu3942

7 жыл бұрын

What do you mean? this event made Moi worse! he became paranoid and dangerous.

@mwl.peternjau1101

6 жыл бұрын

alfred mangata it's after this incidence that Moi became an animal

@andrewkiptoo3563

6 жыл бұрын

Moi was a soft and an angel before this....after the coup was crushed,Moi turned into a beast.

Poor man Ochuka... quite stupid operation.

Sounds like our Luo brothers.

@davidouma712

4 жыл бұрын

We are not your brothers

@billyongus344

2 жыл бұрын

Lakeside were betrayed by the so called circumsiced 'cowards'

rehearsals for today

Thank God it Failed.... We would be having a Museveni

The statement that coup leader Hezekiah Ochuka Rabala read was written by non other than Raila Odinga at a house in Dagoreti corner.....i came across this classified information somewhere

@mirerijnr

6 жыл бұрын

Andrew Kiptoo Sasa tufanye nini?

@andrewkiptoo3563

6 жыл бұрын

Mireri Junior unaweza kunia

@shikanyota

4 жыл бұрын

@@andrewkiptoo3563 😂😂😂

Polisi wakuwe kama raia! Coming again soon!

@andrewkiptoo3563

6 жыл бұрын

Kisumu_Liberation_Front uutangoja sana

@Maweresistance

5 жыл бұрын

@@andrewkiptoo3563 Ruto arudi kuchunga ngombe na kuiba ngombe za jamii wengine. Bure type!

LOL

Who was reading this? Clearly not a regular newsreader.

@itsjuliam

7 жыл бұрын

Kathambi Kinoti It's a military guy

@mura5615

6 жыл бұрын

that was ochuka the leader

@Flaytt744

6 жыл бұрын

Ochuka , but Mambo mbotela was also told to read some stuff before the Rebels started their "message

@heraldloshi1864

6 жыл бұрын

Kathambi Kinoti One of the rebels

H

Hahaha

Lau is blood thirst viper.

Subtitles, please.

@WaigwaGichuhi

10 жыл бұрын

Its in English.

guys this video is nt genuine...................mambo mbotela"s voice isnt in the clip

@sparrowdudu

5 жыл бұрын

You are incorrect. This is a genuine recording made by me on a cassette recorder at Starehe Boy's Centre, on the day. We were listening to the radio, and when I started hearing gunshots in the street outside, I started recording. I will post more soon, with other announcements, for historical record. ( the uploader here is free to use my excerpts, because I gave it a Creative Commons license, as I believe it should be heard by young Kenyans today. But if you check my channel, you will see I uploaded it before hotkenyangoods).

This is fake. I was listening to the announcement that day, and the guy had a deep voice and very refined English. 👎👎👎

@sparrowdudu

5 жыл бұрын

You are incorrect. This is a genuine recording made by me on a cassette recorder at Starehe Boy's Centre, on the day. We were listening to the radio, and when I started hearing gunshots in the street outside, I started recording. I will post more soon, with other announcements, for historical record. ( the uploader here is free to use my excerpts, because I gave it a Creative Commons license, as I believe it should be heard by young Kenyans today. But if you check my channel, you will see I uploaded it before hotkenyangoods).

a typical jaruo ?

duh! i scan not imagine by this time cost of living was still high ,house rent were high

General muhamad mohamed Yahya Ahmed Ibrahim.sos

hehehe the reader is clearly under distress and shaking like leaves in the storms. That was a shaky moment in Kenya. Even by then, Kenyans were crying of corruption. We have embraced corruption far too long. It is time we dealt this monster a HUGE blow.

The day was indeed a dark one for the peaceful Kenyan nation, ibilizi ashindwe kweli. Never again should our country's stability and tranquility be threatened by a few angry hooligans!

@billyongus344

2 жыл бұрын

So to you the issue they are raising is false?

@OscaR-bo8ub

Жыл бұрын

​@@billyongus344yes

This is fake and was not made on this fateful day.

@sparrowdudu

5 жыл бұрын

You are incorrect. This is a genuine recording made by me on a cassette recorder at Starehe Boy's Centre, on the day. We were listening to the radio, and when I started hearing gunshots in the street outside, I started recording. I will post more soon, with other announcements, for historical record. ( the uploader here is free to use my excerpts, because I gave it a Creative Commons license, as I believe it should be heard by young Kenyans today. But if you check my channel, you will see I uploaded it before hotkenyangoods).

These foolish sodiers majority being luos ruled only for a few hours, before coup wasn't crashed by Royal Kenya army sodiers.we all know who the learder of the coup was.

@mentuhotepii2641

7 жыл бұрын

Samson Kahara Kikuyus and Kalenjins abused,robbed and raped Kenya for 54 yrs. but lets blame Raila and Luos for all the failures, ujambazi na ufisadi of the past and present GOK!!

@cocofresh6974

6 жыл бұрын

sure, then i take it the mau maus fight for freedom was in vein

@jumakumajuma

6 жыл бұрын

vain not vein

@jumakumajuma

6 жыл бұрын

u mean loyal not royal

@ocholijacob8735

6 жыл бұрын

Don't be silly

The works of BWANA VITENDWILI it failed terribly!!

@simonmwatsuma2155

6 жыл бұрын

this dictate your failure too bwana ruto

@stellastella6628

6 жыл бұрын

William Ruto TV waiting for your govt to overthrow it makende hii Kenya is led by a democratic govt not by a dictatirial govt as you r trying to make it.Raila fought for the democracy u r enjoying d u r now mocking him ,kapenjins kweli ni wajnga.uhuruto u r illegally in the office coz u were not validly elected

@williamrutotv9390

6 жыл бұрын

mercy mercy makende ni wewe na watu wenu huna adabu enda ukaoshe vyombo

@joycelisutsa2272

6 жыл бұрын

William Ruto TV but you , you win to chase Kikuyu's in R, valley.... Round hi utaju mokimo ni nani

@joycelisutsa2272

6 жыл бұрын

William Ruto TV anaitwa bwana kutanganga

na ni wajaluo walikuwa wanatangaza wakipendua serikali na yule mjamaa

It didn't work because the coup was a one community affair.. Only Championing for their turn to eat😁