Gwalihenzi,
Sijui kwa sababu ipi unataka mimi nimzungumze Fundikira.
Mimi utafiti wangu na ndiyo ulonifikisha hapa JF ni historia ya Tanganyika.
Ngoja tuendelee na historia hiyo.
Niliweka hapa habari za mkutano wa Abdu Sykes na Jomo Kenyatta Nairobi 1950.
Mlishtuka sana.
Sasa ngoja nikumalizieni kile kisa:
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[TD]In 1951 Kenyatta proposed another meeting between KAU and TAA to be held in Arusha.
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In a message which was delivered by a mutual confidant, Kenyatta insisted that TAA leadership should go to the meeting armed.
TAA nominated Abdulwahid, Dossa Aziz and Stephen Mhando to attend the Arusha meeting.
Abdulwahid owned a pistol given to him during the war by a white officer as a birthday present because their birthday happened to conside.
Dossa Aziz was a proud owner of a powerful five-shot repeater gun. It is not known if Mhando owned any firearm.
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[TD="width: 752"]The TAA delegates travelled separately in order to cover their movements. Dossa Aziz was the first among the four delegates to leave for Arusha via Dodoma. In those days there was no direct route to Arusha.
Travellers to Arusha had to pass through Dodoma. Dossa Aziz took with him his five-shot repeater gun.
In Dodoma Dossa Aziz was received by Ali Juma Ponda, the TAA Central Province Secretary, and after being briefed by Dossa Aziz about the scheduled TAA and KAU meeting, Ponda informed Dossa Aziz that he had received report that there had been serious skimishes between the Mau Mau and British troops; that the KAU leadership was being rounded up and it was very unlikely that Kenyatta and his delegation would travel to Arusha.
Dossa Aziz changed his mind and proceeded to Mwanza by train to inspect TAA branches.
Abdulwahid and Mhando received similar reports on time and were warned not to proceed to Arusha because of the unforseen events in Kenya.
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[TD="width: 752"]In Mwanza Dossa Aziz was received by Dr Joseph Mutahangarwa, TAA Vice-President in Lake Province.
Dr Mutahangarwa was the first African to qualify as a medical doctor.
After learning about the Arusha meeting, Dr Mutahangarwa warned Dossa Aziz about the risk Abdulwahid was taking as Secretary and Acting President of the Association.
Dr Mutahangarwa pointed out to Dossa Aziz the dangers that the Association and its leadership would face should the government discover that TAA was trying to link its own struggle with that of KAU. These fears expressed by Dr Mutahangarwa were without doubt genuine because KAU was suspected of supporting and providing leadership to Mau Mau, with Kenyatta and Kaggia as ringleaders.
Dossa Aziz boarded a ship at Mwanza for Bukoba where he was received by Chief Rutinwa and other members of the TAA Bukoba branch, including veteran politician Ali Migeyo and Suedi Kagasheki.
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[TD="width: 752"]Upon his return, Dossa Aziz was arrested at Dar es Salaam railway station, and marched off to the Central Police Station just across the road where he was interrogated.
The white police officer wanted to know where Dossa Aziz had been and why he was travelling around the country with a powerful gun.
Dossas father, Aziz Ali, intervened and Dossa Aziz was set free without being charged.
Many years later Abdulwahids friend, now a senior government official, had an audience with President Kenyatta at the State House in Nairobi.
Surprisingly Kenyatta remembered him as the person who accompanied Abdulwahid to that meeting.
With his broken Swahili and heavy Kikuyu accent, Kenyatta reminded him of the 1950 meeting.
He called his official photographer who took their photograph together.
This photograph decorates the living room of the former footballer to this day.
Kenyatta also presented him with a tie with the national colours of Kenya.
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Information from Dossa Aziz.
[2] For a profile of Suedi Kagasheki, see Mutahaba, op. cit.