Mboya Heads New Party
NAIROBI, August 24.
A new political party—the Kenya Independence Movement — has been formed in Kenya, it was announced today. Mr Tom Mboya. the general secretary of the Kenya Federation °f Labour, has been appointed Party secretary. It is proposed that the new Party should operate throughout the Colony, although this is forbidden under the emergency regulations in the case of African Political parties. Mr Mboya, who is president of the Nairobi People’s Convention Party, led the group of six African elected members of the Legislative Council which split at the week-end from the other eight African members, who support the recently-formed Kenya National Party. In a policy statement issued on August 7 for next year's London talks on Kenya’s constitutional future the Mboya group called for a date to be set for independence. a common electoral roll with Africans having the majority vote; immediate integration of the now exclusively European White Highlands farming area: a ban on further immigration of European farmers; and an end to segregated schooling.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28983, 26 August 1959, Page 13
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