Jackal
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On this day, 35 years ago, President Daniel Arap Moi ordered that Oginga Odinga be arrested and placed under house arrest at the Lakeside town of Kisumu.
Prior to the detention, Moi had banned Odinga from travelling outside Kisumu since Sept 28, 1982, immediately after the August attempted coup.
In May 1982,before the coup attempt, Odinga's criticism of the Government's offer of military facilities to the US Army, had made Moi order his expulsion from KANU and his passport seized, amid rumours that he was also planning to form an opposition party.
Meanwhile as the atmosphere of tension between President Moi and Odinga built up, the latter's son, Raila Odinga,was in Police custody facing treason charges after being implicated in the coup attempt.
Back in Kisumu where Odinga had been put under house arrest, the Police were already enforcing the orders by guarding the compound and nobody was allowed to enter except his immediate family members.
On the same day Odinga was being put under house arrest the High Court increased the jail sentence of, Peter Ogega, a Nairobi University student, from six years to ten years, after the state appealed for a higher sentence.
Ogega who was jailed for sedition, later became Kenyan Ambassador to the US when NARC came to power in 2002.
Prior to the detention, Moi had banned Odinga from travelling outside Kisumu since Sept 28, 1982, immediately after the August attempted coup.
In May 1982,before the coup attempt, Odinga's criticism of the Government's offer of military facilities to the US Army, had made Moi order his expulsion from KANU and his passport seized, amid rumours that he was also planning to form an opposition party.
Meanwhile as the atmosphere of tension between President Moi and Odinga built up, the latter's son, Raila Odinga,was in Police custody facing treason charges after being implicated in the coup attempt.
Back in Kisumu where Odinga had been put under house arrest, the Police were already enforcing the orders by guarding the compound and nobody was allowed to enter except his immediate family members.
On the same day Odinga was being put under house arrest the High Court increased the jail sentence of, Peter Ogega, a Nairobi University student, from six years to ten years, after the state appealed for a higher sentence.
Ogega who was jailed for sedition, later became Kenyan Ambassador to the US when NARC came to power in 2002.