Hi Augusto ! It seems that lawyer-Nazareth was not part of Kenyatta'slegal team in the early fifties defending him and five other freedom fightersas part of the Kapenguria Six who were Mau Mau nationalists. The Six included Paul Ngei- who like Ronald Ngala- headedtwo other political parties. (Kenyatta headed the KANU party). The legal team was led by a British barrister ,Pritt and aided byan Indian lawyer -Achhroo Ram Kapila and the goan lawyer-Dr. Fitzval (aka Fitz) DeSouza who later became Deputy Speakerof Parliament. Kapila, who was trained at London's prestigious Lincoln Inn, alsodefended then Tanganyika's Julius Nyerere - the head of the TANUparty and Seychelles's Rene who took over the Presidency of theIndian Ocean Islands from the "puppet" regime of James Mancham. (Nyerere also had two local Indian attorneys; Rattansey - a MP forTabora-where Nyerere studied and taught- and was later appointedby Nyerere as the only Indian ambassador, and Jhaveri whom Nyerere appointed a High Cort judge).
I met Kapila in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in the late sixties when he came down to defend the younger brother of Zanzibar's goan Attorney-General, Wolfgango Dourado. The younger brother, who worked for the Central Bank, was charged with another employee of stealing money from the bank. The case-which was heard before Tanzania's first Black Chief Justice- theTrinidadian Philip Telford Georges- was very complicated;but Kapila got them both acquitted on a technical issue.(Georges later served as Chief Justice in the Seychelles and Zimbabwe)-formerly Rhodesia. Before the case, I managed to speak to some folks accompanying Kapilaand they told me of his very exhorbitant legal fees- including his high retainerfees and expensive court appearances. (like the greek lawyer-Georgiadis, Kapila was one of Kenya's top lawyers- if not East Africa's.) I later heard from the grape vines that Kapila had a "falling out" with President Kenyatta and his young wife-Mama Ngina. How far this is true, I do not know. May be goanetter- Mervyn Maciel will be able to expound on this subject. Kenyatta died in 1978 and was replaced by the Vice-President-Daniel Arap Moi. Cheers. Tony Barros.New Jersey,USA.
