Fred Kubai

Fred Kubai (1917–June 1, 1996) was one of the Kapenguria Six, members of the Kenya African Union arrested in 1952, tried and imprisoned.

He was a Kikuyu, and a leader of the Kenya Transport Workers Union and the East African Trade Union Congress. Kubai organized attacks against the European government in Nairobi. In May 1950, he was tried and acquitted of the assassination attempt of a city official.[1] On 22 October 1952, Fred Kubai, together with Bildad Kaggia, Kung'u Karumba, Jomo Kenyatta, Paul Ngei, and Achieng Oneko, was charged with organizing the Mau Mau Uprising.[2]

  1. ^ Christenson (1991), p. 236
  2. ^ Okoth (2006), p. 80