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Embrace Saba Saba ideals as we commemorate this day

Riot police disperse university students during the Saba Saba in Nairobi on July 1997. (File, Standard]

The second liberation struggle, whose turning point was July 7, 1990, was not an easy one. Until then, Kenya was a one party State with very little space for divergent political views. 

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