While at a function in Gesima in late 80s, ex-Kitutu Masaba MP George Anyona, a fierce critic of President Daniel Moi came face to face with deadly special branch.
For months, Anyona who had lost his seat in 1977, had gone hiding following detention without trial that lasted for 6 years.
At Gesima, recalls his host Alfayo Nyakundi, a retired teacher, Anyona was forced to spped off before taking refuge in his house.
"I saw someone with familiar beard little did I know it was my former MP. He had ran out of a meeting to escape special branch," he recalled.
Minutes later, the young Nyakundi hastily opened a room meant for his boys and asked the MP to take refuge in a cupboard.
"That was the only option because they had pursued him into villages. I opened a room and asked him to take refuge in a cupboard," he told the reporter.
Later in 1992, at the eve of multiparty, Anyona would recapture the Kitutu Masaba seat on a KSC party before reclaiming it in 1997.
Interestingly, Anyona would in 1995 make a surprise return to Nyakundi's home and 'compensate him with a brand new cupboard.