Thousands show support for Moi

Press, 11 August 1982, Page 7

Thousands show support for Moi

NZPA Nairobi Thousands of people demonstrated in towns throughout Kenya yesterday in support of President Daniel Arap Moi’s Government in the wake of last week’s bloody coup attempt by a section of the Air Force. But there was no march in the capital. Nairobi, scene oi most of the violence and looting which left at least 13C people dead round the coun - try. suggesting that the Government did not yet feel fully confident of controlling the situation. The State radio announced vesterday that the remaining Air Force rebels • still in hiding were being given a “last chance” to surrender to the Army or the police. The daily newspaper, the “Nation" said that the police

did not know how many rifles handed out or left behind by the rebels as they fled had been still unaccounted for.

A special session of Parliament was cancelled yesterday without explanation, but a closed meeting of members of Parliament of the ruling Kenya African National Union party, was still on. President Moi’s right-hand man, the vice-president and Interior Minister (Nr Mwai Kibaki), told one of the proGovernment demonstrations in his constituency at Nyeri, 150 km north of Nairobi, that “no stone would be left unturned” until the rebels were • “rooted out and given the justice they deserve," according to the Kenyan News Agency. At Kisumu. on Lake Victoria, local party chairman, Mr Oselu Nyalik, told a rally that the rebels “did not do it alone. There must be prominent people behind it.”