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Nyayo House: Meet James Opiyo, Kenya’s dreaded 'torture-in-chief'

James Opiyo [Photo: Courtesy]

He was the most dreaded officer at Nairobi’s Nyayo House torture chambers where men with parental hair on their chests wept for mercy. James Opiyo was the ‘torturer-in-chief.’  

How he broke victims can best be described through those who faced the hulky cop with imposing height.

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