Mahamoud Mohamed

Mahamoud Mohamed
محمود محمد
Allegiance  Kenya
Service/branch Kenya Defence Forces
Years of service 1955 to 1998
Rank General
Commands held Chief of General Staff
General Mahamoud Mohamed (Somali: Maxamuud Maxamed, Arabic: محمود محمد) is a former Somali military commander. A citizen of Kenya, he was the former Chief of General Staff of the Kenyan military.[1]

Career

Mohamed was born to an ethnic Somali family from the Abdulwak sub-clan of the Ogaden Darod.[2][3] His younger brother Hussein Maalim Mohamed was Kenya's Minister of State in the office of the presidency, the first Somali to be appointed to the cabinet.[4]

On 1 August 1982, Mohamed commanded Kenyan military and polices forces in a successful suppression of a coup d'état attempt against then President of Kenya Daniel arap Moi.[5] The putsch had been staged by a group of low-ranking military officers led by Senior Private Hezekiah Ochuka, who was later found guilty of five overt acts and sentenced to death by hanging.[6]

Mohamed would remain the Chief of General Staff of the Kenya Defence Forces for the next ten years.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Hornsby, Charles (2013). Kenya: A History Since Independence. I.B.Tauris. p. 410. ISBN 1780765010.
  2. IWGIA Newsletter, Issue 37. International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs. 1984. p. 96.
  3. Abdullahi, Mohamed Diriye (2001). Culture and Customs of Somalia. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 41. ISBN 0313313334.
  4. United States. Dept. of State. Bureau of African Affairs (1983). AF Press Clips. p. 64.
  5. Society. Nyamora Communications Limited. 1992. p. 12.
  6. Gachuhi, Roy (11 December 2009). "How heroic trio of fighter pilots scuttled mission to bomb State House and GSU". nation.co.ke. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
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