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How Mwea was immortalised as Kenya's headquarters of torture

1,000 hardcore Mau Mau freedom fighters were broken in Mwea, Kirinyaga County. [iStockphoto]

When controversial Embakasi East MP Babu Owino was driven to the nondescript Wang'uru Police Station in Mwea, Kirinyaga County, his travails evoked memories of a dark era which had a while back catapulted the area into the national limelight.

Mwea, conjures up images of tortured freedom fighters being stripped naked by overbearing white colonial officers hell-bent to make them disown their freedom struggle.

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