Gondor Calls For Aid (An East Africa Mutiny WI)

In early 1964, the three armies in East Africa (Kenya, Tanganyika, and Uganda) all mutinied/striked against the government for better pay and promotion opportunities. Famously these three leaders called upon British aid (stationed in Kenya) to break the strikers.

This did some damage especially to Julius Nyerere and Milton Obote, whose pan-African rhetoric didn't jive with calling in white British soldiers to break up the African army.

What if Nyere and Obote called upon the aid of Kenyatta? Kenya was the most stable of the three countries, so we assume that in this scenario they avoid their own mutiny so that they can aid Uganda and Tanganyika.

The earlier East Africa Command (over all three armies) broke apart partially because Nyere and Obote felt that they were paying too much to fund Kenya's defense (Kenya had a larger army than both countries combined).

Would such a strike break by the Kenya African Rifles in Uganda and Tanganyika give a greater appreciation for Kenya and the East Africa Command, perhaps providing impetus and popular support for continued growth between the three countries instead of their OTL drifting apart?
 
Interesting question (and Obote does seem to have gotten the worst of it in the end, Nyerere always had better survival instincts). On the British side there's this which almost happened:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Finery

I'll confess for a moment I was hoping this was a beautiful alternate-spelling pun and would be about Gondar (Ethiopia) demanding League of Nations intervention during the Italian invasion. But this is good too, ex-British East Africa is a very interesting place in the decades following decolonization, lots of ins and outs. I suspect Britain would have provided whatever tacit (logistical) support Kenya required to mobilize and move its own forces over the distances involved (there are no quick ways into the population centers of Uganda from Kenya for example except by air over Lake Victoria), but that too presents internal Kenyan issues with all the cross-cutting political cleavages beneath Kenyatta, usually on tribal lines, about whether he really deserved to be called the father of the nation and just how much of a sovereign nation he'd managed to bargain away from the British at that point given the continued presence in-country.
 
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