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So John Michuki’s choice for Team Central in 2012 Uhuru Kenyatta was conceived in present-day Kenyatta House in Samburu’s Maralal town. Seems prison reforms did not start with the Madoka Report recommendations of yesteryear.

Turns out conjugal rights for prisoners were already a reality in far-off 1961. When were they scrapped and by whom? Inmates of Kamiti, Naivasha, Kodiaga and other jails may not afterall be chasing after the wind if they keep claiming the Bill of Rights allows them some quality time as they serve time to repay their ‘debt to society’.

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