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Activist Okiya Okoiti Omtatah during an interview with The Standard. PHOTO DAVID NJAAGA/STANDARD
NAIROBI: On the evening of November 9, 2012 Okiya Omtatah was a man about town jumping over pools and puddles on a wet Nairobi night trying to get to his destination.
“Two men walked behind me. As we neared I&M Bank Building, one of them called out my name, ‘Omtatah’. I looked back, and we waved at each other pleasantly,” he says.
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