PREMIUM How Kenyatta’s fear of an Odinga coup entrenched British military in Kenya Weekly Review Just now Listen

Penfold became Kenya’s first Chief of Defence Staff and also commanded the British military training team.

Out of this Jaramogi fear, the Anglo-Kenyan defence agreement, signed on June 3, 1964, got entrenched and it was this arrangement that later evolved into the modern-day British Army Training Unit Kenya, commonly known as BATUK.

The British nevertheless believed that a Jaramogi victory would remove Kenya from the Western camp and threaten Britain’s military and commercial interests in East Africa.