Nowhere to hide: When the State struck back against Mwakenya

Former Constitution of Kenya Review Commission Chair Yash Pal Ghai (right), Ndungu Githuku, poet and activist (centre) and James Karanja, former member of Mwakenya Movement, interact during Human Rights Defenders Mashujaa Festival organised by Defenders Coalition of Kenya in Nairobi on Sunday, October 20 2019 [David Njaaga,Standard]

 For members and sympathisers of the Mwakenya movement, 1986 was the year of the crackdowns. Dozens of them were arrested, detained and subsequently jailed.

“When the crackdown began I was at the District Agriculture Office in Kakamega,” Kangethe Mungai, an agriculturalist says.