Did you know that 'theft by servant' got Kenya Air Force back its name?

Kenya Air Force aircraft,inset Hezekiah Ochuka. Photo: Courtesy

No August passes without Kenyans remembering how the country irrevocably changed that Sunday morning on August 1, 1982, after misguided junior officers of the Kenya Air Force executed an abortive coup against the government of retired President Daniel arap Moi.

More than 100 soldiers and 200 civilians died, including two (West) Germans, an Englishwoman, and a Japanese male tourist and his child. Two Asian women committed suicide after being raped. In just 12 hours of madness, the economic damage pecked Sh500 million, not chicken feed in 1982.