Jomo's lucky escape on dark day of prison knife attack

Kariuki Chotara [File]

How could a teenager break out of a heavily guarded detention camp, navigate through hundreds of kilometers in a wilderness infested with blood thirsty lions and other beasts and attempt to alter the course of Kenya’s history?  

The teenager, Kariuki Chotara, had caused the colonial police in 1957 to issue a Hue and Cry Notice, authored in a mix of Gikuyu, Kiswahili and English. So desperate were the police to capture Chotara, who was at the time a minor with a Sh1,000 bounty on his head.