In the many decades of newspaper publishing and printing in Kenya's history, there are only two days when all published pieces were bought.
The two days were both during the tenure of Kenya's founding President Jomo Kenyatta.
Both of them also have a semblance that they had headlines that shook the nation following the events that had happened.
July 6, 1969
Newspapers on that day told of the assassination of former trade unionist Tom Mboya.
According to Walter Odum, a newspaper vendor who has been selling daily papers since 1968, all newspapers he had carried were bought before he got to his stand.
"July 6, 1969, all newspapers sold out. People sobbed as they read and some tore up the papers immediately after reading them,” he recalled.
It is further recorded that on that day, uncontrollable crowds had gathered at various distributor's places to get the papers.
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June 14, 1974
It was when Kungu Karumba, one of the 'Kapenguria 6' Mau Mau detainees, disappeared.
Karumba mysteriously disappeared and was never seen again following a business trip to Uganda which was at the time led by the military dictator Idi Amin.
26 years after he was declared missing and no explanation given by the authorities, he was then declared dead upon expiry of the mandatory seven years after which a missing person is legally proclaimed dead.
It was only until later that it was revealed that Karumba was killed by a Uganda army officer and key aide to the dreaded army commander under President Amin.
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