{"id":1212879,"date":"2022-09-28T20:27:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T20:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/28\/meet-the-man-who-ruled-kenya-for-6-hours-and-what-happend-to-him\/"},"modified":"2022-09-28T20:27:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T20:27:49","slug":"meet-the-man-who-ruled-kenya-for-6-hours-and-what-happend-to-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/28\/meet-the-man-who-ruled-kenya-for-6-hours-and-what-happend-to-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet The Man Who Ruled Kenya For 6 Hours And What Happend To Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/8f5630f044e44a8799abc6bdfa83af5f\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hezekiah Rapala Ochuka (alias Awour)<\/strong> was born on July 23, 1953, and was executed on July 9, 1987. He was a Kenyan Air Force Senior Private who commanded the country for roughly six hours after planning and conducting a coup against President Daniel Arap Moi.<\/p>\n<p>Hezekiah Ochuka was at the center of a failed coup attempt on August 1, 1982, from which <strong>President Daniel Arap Moi <\/strong>escaped in less than a day.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old was a Grade 1 \u2013 the military&#8217;s second-lowest rank. Hezekiah was an unrepentant man who served as the chairman of the so-called &#8220;People&#8217;s Redemption Council,&#8221; which sought to depose President Moi.<\/p>\n<p>Because of Hezekiah&#8217;s battle expertise and relationships, he was able to plan a tactical theft on the Kenyan government.<\/p>\n<p>Hezekiah did not succeed in completely replacing his homeland&#8217;s ruling party, but he did manage to take control of the entire country of Kenya for six hours.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/feb3b47b225540f4b8fb6144cfc72d65\"\/><\/p>\n<p>After fleeing to Uganda, Ochuka moved to Tanzania, where Julius Nyerere had offered him shelter. In 1987, he was deported to Kenya along with a few other key conspirators.<\/p>\n<p>He was found guilty of all accusations leveled against him and his team of low-ranking air force officers. After being found guilty of treason in a court-martial, he was sent to Kamiti Maximum Security Prison and executed.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Giftpong123 (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hezekiah Rapala Ochuka (alias Awour) was born on July 23, 1953, and was executed on July 9, 1987. He was a Kenyan Air Force Senior Private who commanded the country for roughly six hours after planning and conducting a coup against President Daniel Arap Moi. Hezekiah Ochuka was at the center of a failed coup [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1212880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[26540,327,2806,697,1156,2167],"class_list":["post-1212879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-happend","tag-hours","tag-kenya","tag-man","tag-meet","tag-ruled"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}