The horrors of Nyayo Torture Chambers still live years after the killer cells were closed. The longest serving victim of this inhuman creation is Israel Agina.
In 2014, the detainee narrated his fresh memories to the Standard where one was put in water-logged rooms and denied sleep and food.
Agina opposed the greed practised by the then regime where leaders grabbed land and went after financial favours from international partners.
His first arrest came in 1968 in the company of Jaramogi Oginga Odinga. He had just returned from South Korea where he studied Mechanical Engineering.
This marked start of a rough time with the government. He was arrested severally and went into exile but returned in 1985 after Retired President Daniel Moi announced amnesty to those exiled.
The dictatorial regime confined him in Nyayo Torture Chambers for over three months after being arrested by special branch officers on September 3, 1986 while in his house in Buruburu Estate.
“I stayed there for 96 days. It was horrible. No other detainee stayed there that long,” Agina recounts as quoted by Standard.
The longest serving detainee states that despite the inhuman acts he was exposed to and lack of compensation, he has forgiven thise who tortured him.
“I have forgiven all those who tortured me there since they were working under instructions from their masters," he stated.