In a bulletin of June 25, 1971, CIA officials report how Ndolo was forced to resign after he was implicated in the coup plot. Mutiso was the MP for Yatta at the time of the 1971 coup attempt. General Mulinge, who was at the time the army commander, was approached to back up the coup by Ndolo but he turned down the request. Despite the grim prediction of violence, the transition from Kenyatta to his deputy Daniel arap Moi in 1978 was peaceful. The warning of an attempted coup would come to pass in 1982 when Kenya Air Force soldiers led a short-lived revolt.

Source: Standard Digital February 12, 2017 06:57 UTC