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Pio Gama Pinto was born on 31 March, 1927 in Nairobi, British Kenya, is a Kenyan politician and journalist. Discover Pio Gama Pinto's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 37 years old?

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Occupation Politician, journalist
Age 37 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 31 March 1927
Birthday 31 March
Birthplace Nairobi, British Kenya
Date of death 24 February, 1965
Died Place Westlands, Parklands, Nairobi, Kenya
Nationality Kenya

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1927

Pio Gama Pinto (31 March 1927 – 24 February 1965) was a Kenyan journalist, politician and freedom fighter.

He was a socialist leader who was key in Kenya's struggle for independence.

Pinto was born in Nairobi on 31 March 1927 to a Kenyan Asian family of Goan Catholic descent.

Born to immigrant Goan parents hailing from the Portuguese Indian province of Goa, his father was an official in the colonial government of Kenya while his mother was a housewife.

1944

At age eight, he was sent to Goa for his education and spent the next nine years there, passing his matriculation exams at St. Joseph's High School, Arpora and then moving to the Bombay Presidency, studying science at Karnatak College, Dharwar for two years before joining the Royal Indian Air Force in 1944 as an apprentice ground engineer.

He then took up a job in the Posts and Telegraph office in Bombay, participated in a general strike and became a founding member of the Goa National Congress whose aim was the liberation of Goa from Portuguese rule.

When only seventeen, he started an agitation in Bombay against the Portuguese colonial occupation of Goa.

His political activism soon made it necessary for him to return to Kenya to avoid being arrested and deported to the Tarrafal concentration camp in Cape Verde.

1949

In 1949 Pinto returned to Kenya and, after a succession of clerical jobs, became involved in local politics aimed at overthrowing British colonial rule in Kenya.

1951

In 1951, he co-founded the East African Indian Congress, a nationalist political party dedicated to building support for independence amongst the South Asian community of Kenya.

Pinto also turned to journalism, writing for the Colonial Times, Daily Chronicle and The Uzwod.

1952

From 1952, he was also a regular contributor to the international services of All India Radio, where he produced a popular anti-colonial program named Goan Newsletter.

He also worked closely with British anti-colonial activists, including the Independent Labour MP Fenner Brockway, to inform the world press of political developments in Kenya.

This international activism, however, brought Pinto to the attention of Kenya's colonial authorities.

1954

In 1954, five months after his marriage to Emma Dias, he was rounded up in the notorious Operation Anvil and spent the next four years in detention on Manda Island.

1958

He was kept in confinement from early 1958 until October 1959 at Kabarnet.

1960

In 1960, he founded the Kenya African National Union (KANU) newspaper Sauti Ya KANU, and later, Pan African Press, of which he subsequently became Director and Secretary.

Pinto also formed Kenya Freedom Party, a multiracial socialist organisation, but dissolved the party when KANU allowed non-Africans to join its ranks for the first time.

1961

Pinto subsequently played an active role in campaigning for KANU during the 1961 elections, which the party won comfortably.

1962

From 1962, Pinto turned his attention to Mozambique, which was still under Portuguese colonial rule, and worked closely with the anti-colonial group FRELIMO.

1963

In 1963 he was elected a Member of the Central Legislative Assembly and in July 1964 was appointed a Specially Elected Member of the House of Representatives.

1964

He worked to establish the Lumumba Institute in 1964 to train KANU party officials.

1965

He was assassinated in 1965, leading many to consider him independent Kenya's first political martyr.

On 24 February 1965, at the Westlands neighbourhood of Parklands in Nairobi, Pinto was shot at close range in the driveway while waiting for the gate to be opened.

He was with his daughter in his car at the time of his killing.

Pinto became the first Kenyan politician to be assassinated after Independence.

At the time of his assassination, Pinto was 38.

The police set out to find three gunmen in connection with the murder.

Kisilu Mutua and Chege Thuo, young adults at the time, were arrested on the day of the murder.

Kisilu and Chege informed the C.I.D. that they were hired by Ochola Mak’Anyengo, the secretary general of the Kenya Petroleum Oil workers union, to frighten Pinto ostensibly on account of his interfering with the union.

Mak’Anyengo was arrested following these accusations.

At the police lineup however, the accused affirmed that Mak’Anyengo resembled the man who hired them, but he was not the actual culprit who had identified himself as Mak'Anyengo.

Mak’Anyengo was cleared of any involvement and released.

After the case was heard in court, Thuo was acquitted, but Mutua was given the death sentence.

This sentence was later reduced to life in prison following an appeal.

When Mutua, convicted for the murder of Pinto, was released after 35 years in prison through a presidential pardon by the late President Daniel Arap Moi, Mutua insisted on his innocence and called for thorough investigations to identify Pinto's true assassins.

Different theories have been forwarded about the assassination with some suggesting that Pinto was killed by Jomo Kenyatta's men and others seeing Pinto's assassination as the extermination of an avowed Communist with links to the Mozambican liberation movement by neocolonial forces.

1966

An article published in Transition magazine in 1966 noted that a letter was circulated amongst Members of Parliament after Pinto's murder warning of the risks of cooperating with the eastern bloc.

Bildad Kaggia was quoted saying that Pinto's killing was not an ordinary murder but a political one.

Despite the wide perception that this was a political assassination, the police investigation treated the murder as not political.