Inside secret coup attempt that killed 240 in city crossfire

Nyayo followers led by Vice President and Minister for Home affairs, Mwai Kibaki as they held a loyalty demonstration along Nyeri town streets after the coup attempt. 

The military has never been short of men with unimaginable ambition and ego. When one day Senior Sergeant Pancras Oteyo Akumu walked into Senior Private Hezekiah Ochuka’s office and saw the words ‘The Next President of Kenya’ carved out untidily on his desk, he knew Ochuka would be the man for the job he had at hand.

And so he set in motion a plan that was to end in the death of 240 people in a bloody standoff on August 1, 1982, which is recorded as Kenya’s second failed coup attempt.