Dedan Kimathi: We have been looking for our father's grave for over 50 years

That Field Marshall Dedan Kimathi, the leader of the Mau Mau uprising against British colonial rule in the 1950s needs a decent burial befitting a national hero, is not in doubt. Just that after his execution in 1957 his unmarked grave at Kamiti Maximum Prison remains a State secret.

It was assumed that when Kenya attained her independence on December 12, 1963, which we now celebrate as Jamhuri Day, the new government of founding President Mzee Jomo Kenyatta would locate Kimathi's unmarked grave and accord the former soldier and primary school teacher, a decent burial.