A pro-government counter-protester wields a wooden club while running through a demonstration over the death of Kenyan blogger Albert Ojwang in police custody, in downtown Nairobi, Kenya, on June 17, 2025.
A group of former political prisoners, including Gitobu Imanyara, Ngotho Kariuki and Wafula Buke, held a press conference on Tuesday and warned that Kenya was sliding back to the dark days of the Kanu dictatorship under Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel Arap Moi.
The group is not a fixture on the never-ending campaigns, changing political alliances depending on expediency, elbowing for space at the feeding trough in the so-called broad-based government of William Ruto and Raila Odinga.
