1982 coup: Meet army general who ended Ochuka’s 6-hour ‘presidency’

Hezekiah Ochuka after his arrest for plotting the 1982 coup.

The crushing of the August 1, 1982 coup had its unsung heroes and unfair villains when gunfire reverberated in Eastleigh and Embakasi airbases.

The coup plotters, half high, but fully sober to the fact that the Kenya Army soldiers had not returned to their bases from military games in Lodwar, had their moment, which for 20 years, determined the course of Kenya’s history.