Rampant corruption mocks our Mashujaas sacrifices

Former Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka speaking during the viewing of the body of late rugby star, Benjamin Ayimba at Rugby grounds along Ngong road, on Wednesday, June 9, 2021. [Samson Wire. Standard].

On the eve of 20^th October 1952, heavily armed British police and homeguards in a crackdown known as “Operation Jock”, inhumanely invaded 106 marked African nationalists’ homesteads across our nation.

The “106” were alleged to be leaders of the Mau Mau insurgency against British colonial domination. On 20^th October 1952, a State of Emergency was declared that also came with the imposition of a curfew from dawn to dusk. By May 1954, over 5,000 Africans had been killed.  Nine years later, by the time Kenya gained its Independence, over 90,000 Kenyans had been executed and/or tortured according to the Kenya Human Rights Commission and, more than 160,000 detained in less than humane conditions.