How 1982 coup claimed the life of university students’ union leader

By Barrack Muluka

Titus Adung’osi was a good Christian boy. He did not like trouble and he encouraged everybody else to steer clear of trouble. That was precisely why we elected the third year design student to the chairmanship of the university student’s union, late 1981. Tito, as we called him, was our project. Now in the final year, we were weary of unending cycles of strikes and abrupt closures. Our first encounter had been something of fun, in October 1979. The bone of contention was the barring of George Anyona and ex-KPU detainees from contesting the General Election, due in December that year.