Dickson Munene during our interview at the Kamiti Maximum Academy. [Photo: Hivisasa.com]
As I walk in Kamiti Maximum academy, I find Dickson Munene seated in one of the classrooms unperturbed probably trying to assist students of law in their class work.
The death-row inmate and former inspector of police is helping other inmate in class work concerning matters entrepreneurship. He is graduating this year with an MBA in entrepreneurship.
The story of this killer cop is not about to fade on the horizons of the walls of the Kamiti Maximum Security Prison any time soon and he is not ready to go down quietly without a fight.
“Prison is about monotony, it is routine. Things are the same. Staying sane therefore remains a challenge,” Munene says to explain what prompted him to advance his studies.
Munene was all over the media in 2011 after he was convicted of first-degree murder and given a death sentence by Justice Mohamed Warsame.
He was however relieved after President Kenyatta commuted the death sentence to life in prison in 2016.
Munene, who was an inspector of police at the Capitol Hill police post in Nairobi, was involved in an altercation with Dr James Ng’ang’a that ended in the latter’s death.
The deceased who was 30 years old, was the son of former Gatundu North MP Patrick Muiruri.
“How I wish I could take back time so that I can do things differently, but unfortunately that can’t happen.” Said Munene.
He possess a degree in economics from the University of Nairobi and together with that of law he pursued online with the University of London while still in this prison.
He says his research paper was based on prison enterprises that he was able to operate while in prison.
“I’ve been reading a lot and I’m wiser now than before. Am passionate about pursuing justice,” he says, full of hope.
Munene spends his free time mentoring young inmates not to fall back into crime once they are released from prison.
“I’m trying to utilize to the fullest the chance that time has offered me at the moment to make a positive change to my life and that of the people around me.” Munene says as we wide our interview.
He hopes to pursue a PhD soon and has already made an application for the same