17 torture victims seek State compensation

Torture survivors said to belong to the February Eighteen Revolutionary Army (Fera) are now seeking compensation of an unspecified amount from the Government almost two decades later. The 17 people claim they were wrongfully arrested and incarcerated on suspicion of being members of the Fera movement which was formed by the late Brigadier John Odongo and Joseph Wangamati.

One of the petitioners, Job Wanyanja, 49, told the court that his rights were grossly violated by the special branch police officers and prison warders, adding that he was arrested at his home in Bungoma town on February 25, 1995 and taken to Bungoma Police Station.