1982 Coup News Today

Mr Shurie, a battle-hardened former police commander, spills the beans on a Kanu-era cloak-and-dagger operation that nobody ever told you about.

Mbotela was abducted from his home and taken to VoK studios to announce that Moi had been overthrown.

He says that "what broke the camel’s back was an incident at the wedding of General Mulinge’s son at Stony Athi".

Airforce sergeant who was three weeks to his wedding was jailed for 20 years by a court martial.

The mother of Walter Odira, a former Air Force corporal hanged over the failed 1982 coup will wait longer to get her son’s death certificate