82 Coup d'état

Meria

Meria

Elder Lister
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Marciana Adungosi, the 101-year old mother of Titus 'Tito' Adungosi, the student leader who died in prison. The then government of President Moi even interfered with the burial arrangements forcing the family to go against the customs of the Teso community.

It was in 1982 after the attempted coup when the government of KANU went round brutally plucking campus students from their classes and hostels and dumping them in Kamiti. Kamiti maximum prison cell block D turned to be a revolutionary campus. Sixty university students (Mwakdua wa Mwachofi, Ken Sagala, Evans Vitisia, dongo Ogony, Onyango CA, Jeff Mwangi Kwirikia, David Murathe, Ciira Wabere, Kirimaina, Ongele Opala, Richard Momoima Onyonka, Philip Murgor , Wahinya Boore , Thomas Mutus, JJ Ouma , Kibisu Kabatesi , Njuguna Mutonya, Francis Kinyua, Omondi Oludhe among many others) were in the Kamiti prison Block D which gained the name a “revolutionary campus”

The Students Organisation of Nairobi University, Sonu, was established in 1982 as a central body representing University of Nairobi students. The first chairman was Tito Adungosi, an undergraduate with acclaimed oratory skills.

Adungosi was outspoken and several viewed him as radical, so he was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment for sedition on September 24, 1982, soon after the failed military coup of August 1. Adungosi died in prison under mysterious circumstances on December 27, 1988.

Marciliana Adungosi, 102, died on June 16, 2013.
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Meria

Meria

Elder Lister
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DN
Sep 7 1988.
Where were you?
This is what a paranoid president subjected Kenyans to. Ati Koigi planning a coup? Moi sent special branch operatives to Uganda to kidnap Koigi, drugged him then planted him in a house at Kariobangi with a few guns.
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Kasaman

Kasaman

Elder Lister
imei2012 said:
Interesting read Maria... When i lived in kasa (when we met at that watering joint!) My Caretaker was a quiet man with a huge afro said little apart from pleasantries and occasional hallo. One day I brought a gin to the roof top as i checked on my dishes at that time i was tracking es'hail (good old days za bein) I invited him and as we gulped I mentioned I was in service, his look changed and almost dropped his glass. I asked him why he seemed disturbed at first he didn't want to talk but after several tots he opened up. He was in the airforce and on the fateful day he was on leave what followed was literally stuff nightmares are made of, for once i got an insight on how the events unfolded. That incident broke alot of men and btought trauma that they will have to carry to their graves.... Wherever you are friend i hope you find peace.....
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I know that man . Was the pub across the mwiki road , Opposite muthokinjo ?
 
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Montecarlo

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imei2012 said:
Stoicism right there!
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Don't call it stoicism simply because he quoted Socrates. The context of his quote confirms someone who knew he would have to face the consequences of his actions.
He was part of the coup plotters and as far as the law was concerned his was a one way ticket.
 
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