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23 Mungiki convicts lose appeal on 7-year jail term

Twenty-three people convicted of the murder of 29 people in Mathira, Nyeri County, in 2009 will serve a seven-year jail term each.

This was after High Court judge John Mativo rejected their applications to overturn the sentences imposed on them by a magistrates' court following the infamous Gathaithi massacre.

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