October 1959 - Government Cracks Down - In Detention

October 1959 - Government Cracks Down - In Detention - Omolo Agar, Organising Secretary of the NPCP. Arrests and searches were simultaneously going on in many parts of Kenya. Omolo Agar was detained at an Eldoret Hotel, while the police took away a large tin trunk containing Omolo's books and papers from his father's Nyanza House. By March 7, thirty-nine Africans had been arrested. It was the big-gest police round-up since the Mau-Mau emergency. Tom Mboya was almost the only NPCP (Nairobi People's Convention Party) leader who remained in active politics. The rest were arrested, then detained or restricted. (Photograph by Drum Photographer BAHA)

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Africans Agar Arrests Containing Cracks Detained Detention Gest Mboya Nairobi Nyanza Organising Remained Restricted Searches Simultaneously Thirty

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