In July 1990, anxiety gripped Kenyans ahead of a highly consequential public rally planned by the pro-democracy movement in Nairobi to agitate for an end to the autocratic single-party rule.
The tension rose a notch higher when, days to the rally, State security agents arrested and detained politicians Kenneth Matiba, Charles Rubia and Raila Odinga, the most prominent figures in the movement, for alleged sedition.
