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	Hezekiah Ochuka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hezekiah Rabala Ochuka, (alias Awour) (July 23, 1953 – July 9, 1985) was Senior Private in the Kenya Air Force, who ruled Kenya for about six hours after planning and executing a coup against president Daniel arap Moi on August 1, 1982.
		Ochuka, of the Luo ethnic group, was born in Nyakach, Kisumu District.
		On August 1, 1982, Ochuka ruled Kenya for a few hours before escaping to Tanzania when he realized that the coup was failing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hezekiah_Ochuka (233 words)

	Daily Nation On the Web
		On March 19, 1984, at a court martial in Langata Barracks, Hezekiah Ochuka, a former senior private with the Kenya Air Force (KAF), was sentenced to death for treason.
		Ochuka, who was born on July 23, 1953, at Nyakach Division in Kisumu, said in an unsworn defence that he was not aware of any plot to overthrow the Government and if he did he would have alerted his superiors.
		Ochuka said that on Sunday, August 2, 1982, at about 3 am, he was asleep at Eastleigh Air Base but was awoken by the alarm.
	www.nationaudio.com /News/DailyNation/010899/Comment/News17.html (428 words)

	1982 Kenyan coup - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At midnight on Saturday, August 1, 1982, a group of soldiers from the Kenya Air Force took over the radio station Voice of Kenya and announced that they had overthrown the government.
		Hezekiah Ochuka, a Senior Private Grade-I (the second lowest rank in Kenya’s military) ruled Kenya for about six hours before escaping to Tanzania.
		After being extradited back to Kenya, he was tried and found guilty for leading the coup and hanged in 1987.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1982_Kenyan_coup (200 words)

	The EastAfrican on the Web
		Ochuka's cousin, John Nyakwar Otiya, an employee of the External Telecommunications Corporation (Extelcomms) department, told the court martial that Ochuka had sought his assistance in getting access to vital external telephone equipment.
		After the first plot was uncovered, the implicated soldiers in the Kenya Air Force were arrested, the matter handled internally by the armed forces, and the position was "as you were," and life continued.
		It was at this juncture that Ochuka and one of his lieutenants fled to Dar es Salaam to evade capture.
	www.nationaudio.com /News/EastAfrican/05082002/Features/Magazine7.html (1294 words)

	Hezekiah - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Hezekiah
		Against the advice of the prophet Isaiah he rebelled against Assyrian suzerainty in alliance with Egypt, but was defeated by Sennacherib and had to pay out large amounts in indemnities.
		We visited the pool of Hezekiah, where David saw Uriah's wife coming from the bath and fell in love with her.
		by 1 Grey Fox 0--2--3"; they are not now found here; and in his ledger, Feb, 7th, 1743, Hezekiah Stratton has credit "by 1/2 a Catt skin 0--1--4+"; of course, a wild-cat, for Stratton was a sergeant in the old French war, and would not have got credit for hunting less noble game.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Hezekiah (189 words)

	Kenya Times Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		LANG’ATA legislator Raila Odinga yesterday described the 1982 aborted coup leader Senior Private Hezekiah Ochuka as a martyr who should be sung and recognised together with other key political leaders in the country’s liberation struggle.
		Addressing 212 youthful parliamentarians during the inauguration of the elected National Youth Parliament at the Old Chambers, Raila recounted the darkest time the country has come over since the colonial times to the assassination of the late University don Professor Odhiambo Mbai in 2003 but assured that the nation is going to shine soon.
		The 1982 people among them Hezekiah Ochuka and Tim Kairu and lately Dr. Robert Ouko who was assassinated in 1990 and Dr. Chrispine Odhiambo Mbai who was murdered in 2003, all these people are heroes and martyrs of this country,” said Raila as he took the youth gathering down the liberation struggle memory lane.
	www.timesnews.co.ke /22jul06/nwsstory/news1.html (556 words)

	No alla Pena di Morte - NO to the Death penalty - Comunità di Sant'Egidio
		As at January 5, 2001, in Kenya, some 1,925 inmates were on death row.
		The last hanging, however, was in 1987, when Hezekiah Ochuka and Pancras Oteyo Okumu were executed for staging the August 1, 1982, attempted coup.
		Mr Etima said there was always a chance of an innocent man being sentenced to death.
	www.santegidio.org /pdm/news2002/28_09_02_b.htm (307 words)

	Sunday Times Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It or Kenya's 42 years of stability did not confer immunity from coups or ouster if/when he became a liability to the country and democracy itself.
		The collapse of the Hezekiah Ochuka experiment denied Kenyans the opportunity to live through a military.
		Kenyans harbour a false sense of immunity and superiority as the USA was before 9/11, 2001, to proclaim the country is beyond what Hezekiah Ochuka dreamt in 1982, or what ministers are claiming is about to happen.
	www.timesnews.co.ke /25sep05/nwsstory/opinion.html (805 words)

	Headlines \| Raila unveiled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		While, the officer was jailed for three years, a recruit to his cause — Hezekiah Ochuka — proceeded to quietly plan the coup that was never to be.
		The Ochuka group wanted to stage the coup when Moi was handing over the OAU chairmanship to Muammar Gaddafi in Libya.
		Raila and another civilian named as Paddy Onyango advised that it would be better for the coup to be staged when Moi was in Kenya.
	eastandard.net /hm_news/news.php?articleid=1143955317 (1311 words)

	allAfrica.com: Kenya: How Raila Escaped Death Penalty Over Coup Plot (Page 1 of 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Some of the military coup leaders, including Snr Private Hezekiah Ochuka and Snr Sergeant Pancras Okumu Oteyo, were sentenced to death and hanged after being found guilty of treason.
		For the first time ever, the Langata MP confirms that he was deeply involved in the failed coup mounted by sections of the Kenya Air Force, a suggestion he has denied in the past.
		As the coup collapsed, Raila and Sumba fled Nairobi for Kisumu.
	allafrica.com /stories/200607170128.html (734 words)

	Mambogani > Reviving the events of August in March... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The original mastermind WAS NOT Ochuka, and certainly not Raila Odinga.
		During this time, Spte Ochuka, Cpl Odhiambo Ndege and I were to travel to Gil Gil and Naivasha to meet with our supporters from the army there.
		But when a court martial was convened by KAF Commander Brigadier Peter Kariuki to try me, I was convicted of a lesser charge of sedition and sentenced to three years’ imprisonment.
	www.mambogani.com /forums/lofiversion/index.php/t2325.html (8875 words)

	About Kenya - Travel, Maps, Flag and Information
		The 1983 elections were held an year early, and were a direct result of an abortive military coup attempt on 01/08/1982.
		The abortive coup was masterminded by a lowly ranked Airforce serviceman, Senior Private Hezekiah Ochuka and was staged mainly by enlisted men in the Airforce.
		The attempt was quickly suppressed by Loyalist forces led by the Army, the General Service Unit (GSU) — paramilitary wing of the police — and later the regular police, but not without civilian casualties.
	www.canadiancontent.net /profiles/Kenya.html (980 words)

	Daniel arap Moi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Kikuyu elite referred to him as "a passing cloud" and a "limping sheep that stood in the way of other sheep going to pasture", the implication being that he would be pushed aside in a short while to allow them back into power.
		On August 1, 1982, fate played into Moi's hands when forces loyal to his government defeated an attempted coup by Air Force officers led by Hezekiah Ochuka (see 1982 Kenyan coup).
		To this day it appears that the attempt by two independent groups to seize power contributed to the failure of both, with one group making its attempt slightly earlier than the other.
	en.wikilib.org /wiki/Daniel_arap_Moi (1513 words)

	Sunday Nation on the Web (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Had the death occurred on a different date and venue, the country may have had a different history, judging by the competing interests surrounding the late President.
		On August 1, 1982, a group of Airforce soldiers led by Snr Private Hezekiah Ochuka staged an abortive coup against President Moi's government.
		The putsch is blamed for the totalitarian brand of government that became the trademark of Mr Moi's regime in an effort blamed on an overzealous bid to entrench himself and banish his opponents.
	www.johnkaiser.net /nation.082403.htm (528 words)

	Africa News Service: OCHUKA: HOW WE PLOTTED THE MUTINY@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		When Jaramogi Oginga Odinga's aide, Langi, rejoined the group - that included Hezekiah Ochuka, Pancras Oteyo, Joseph Ogidi and Samuel Opiyo - at Kisumu's Beograda Hotel, they left by taxi and were dropped at Lake View hotel from where they were escorted by Langi one by one to Odinga's lakeside house.
		Ochuka was the last and found the rest sitting in the lounge.
		After a while, they were led to a room...
	highbeam.com /doc/1P1:92242700/OCHUKA~C~+HOW+WE+PLOTTED+THE+MUTINY.html (155 words)

	arestmoi
		Bread winners perished together with Comrades who were crushed in the deep dungeons of Nyayo House where unlimited State brutality was dispensed by professional terror gangs.
		Other progressives like Hezekiah Ochuka were executed in cold blood after being stolen from lonely exile with their death certificates having been signed by former dictator Moi, now left to roam the streets in a fleet of limousines and Mercedes Benzes.
		Is it time for survivors of unspeakable state terror to forgive and forget the past or is it time for surviving merchants of death and subjugation under Moi’s Kenya to face Justice for past blood-letting of the ethnic cleansing type?
	www.kenyasocialist.org /kswsfiles/arestmoi.html (1600 words)

	Swahili News - daily news and current events
		Ochuka: How We Allocated Duties Among Our Best Men
		All Africa The uniting factor for the new sound across East Africa seems to be the Swahili language, understood in all th...
		All Africa Perhaps because coup plotting is essentially a clandestine activity, Hezekiah Ochuka and his 1982 cabal often...
	archive.wn.com /2004/03/19/1400/swahili (646 words)

	A jinx or the proven harbinger of death?
		Founding President Mzee Jomo Kenyatta dies in his sleep at State House, Mombasa.
		Kenya Air Force rebels led by Snr Private Hezekiah Ochuka stage an abortive coup to topple President Moi’s government.
		Influential former Cabinet minister, James Gichuru, dies at a Nairobi hospital.
	www.eastandard.net /archives/cl/print/news.php?articleid=26629 (477 words)

	ArtMatters.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		He even asked the government to be “open and name Ouko’s killers because the government knew… This time shall be terrible for leaders who have strayed into wicked ways.”
		After the failed coup d’etat in 1982, Misiani heaped praises on Hezekiah Ochuka, the failed coup architect who was later hanged, asserting that with the prevailing political trend, “even if Ochuka had not attempted to topple Moi government, someone else would have.”
		Between 1972 and 1974, Misiani had problems with President Kenyatta for his composition of Kalamindi in which he talked about Kenyatta’s development policies that benefited only his Central Province and his Agikuyu community.
	www.artmatters.info /misiani.htm (2551 words)

	MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base
		The Government of Kenya has confirmed that two Kenyan soldiers facing charges of hijacking an aircraft of the Kenya Air Force from Nairobi to Dar es Salaam will face kidnapping only if they are returned to Kenya.
		Sergeant Oteyo Okumu and Private Hezekiah Ochuka are alleged to have kidnapped Majors Nick Leshani and Jack Marende from the Eastleight Air Force base in Nairobi and taken them to Dar es Salaam.
		The charge of hijacking incurs a charge of treason.
	www.tkb.org /Incident.jsp?incID=3306 (241 words)

	ZoomInfo Web Summary: Nick Leshan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Leshan, a fighter pilot and a hero of the 1982 attempted coup, has also served as the Kenya Air Force commander.
		During the coup attempt, Leshan was in the headlines after coup-maker Hezekiah Ochuka hijacked Leshan to fly him and his co-conspirators to exile in Tanzania when their military power take-over bid was crushed by loyalist forces.
		Click to find more people named Nick Leshan...
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Leshan_Nick_396950157.htm (423 words)

	BBC News \| AFRICA \| Kenya curses the month of August
		Isn't there anything to celebrate in this month?"
		On 1 August 1982, Kenyans woke up to the sounds of gunfire throughout Nairobi as a group of Kenya Airforce soldiers seized power in a coup attempt that saw private Hezekiah Ochuka rule the country for about six hours.
		Loyalist army soldiers then moved in and restored a shaken Daniel arap Moi to office at the cost of dozens of lives.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/africa/906510.stm (678 words)

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