Independent Kenya keeps army, police and prisons in one security ministry
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- History and Evolution of the Ministry of Defence whole source
Official MOD history states the post-independence ministry structure and later police transfers.
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Consequences
what this set in motion, following the causal links
- preceded Lanet mutiny forces Kenyatta to call British troops back 1964 The new state immediately faced the fragility of its inherited forces.
- triggered Penfold keeps British command above the new Kenyan army 1966 The mutiny hardened Kenyatta reliance on British officers and military support.
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- this preceded Lanet mutiny forces Kenyatta to call British troops back
- First African officers are commissioned into the KAR in Kenya preceded this