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From graft to gang murders: William Ruto's pardon raises controversy, queries

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When former President Uhuru Kenyatta visited the Kamiti Maximu Prison in 2017. [File, Standard]

They did not handcuff me. I walked out with my laptop. They claimed later that they had arrested me at home. I was put into a small unmarked car. I was not armed but I was placed between two officers. Other officers sat in the front. I was treated like some dangerous criminal.

In an interview with The Standard last year, Dr Davy Koech, a distinguished researcher and a Harvard professor narrated how the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) officers took him on a journey that would see his ornate career and good fame crumble right before him.

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