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Richard Onyonka: Failed coup landed me in politics

How did you get into politics?

Despite being the son of a long-serving Cabinet Minister in the governments of both Presidents Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel Moi, the late Dr Zachary Onyonka, I got into politics by accident after the failed 1982 coup where I was among the 156 University of Nairobi students who got arrested and jailed for two years.

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