§ Mr. Brockwayasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what has been the result of his inquiry into the circumstances under which the rehabilitation officer of a detention camp in Kenya asked a friend of a detainee to urge him to confess to Mau Mau associations in the interests of his impoverished family; and what action has been taken.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydThe inquiry has shown that a letter to a friend of a detainee suggesting that the detainee be urged to confess to associations with Mau Mau was prepared by a rehabilitation officer entirely on his own initiative. Owing to a clerical error the letter, which was under submission to a senior officer, was not so submitted but despatched without authority to the addressee. The rehabilitation officer, whose proposal was contrary to the policy of the Kenya Government, has been transferred to duties elsewhere, and instructions have been issued to prisons and detention camps staff that they are not to correspond with relatives or friends of detainees.