Ndung’u says his father was a mere prison warder, not a hangman as Kenyans were made to believe. Even senior prison officers at Kamiti Maximum Prison back then did not who he was. “Not even my father knew who he was, even after working at the prison for almost 50 years,” he adds. If his father was not the executioner, what purpose did he serve at the prison for the time he worked there? “My father told me that as he escorted the condemned inmates to the gallows, they would start crying.

Source: Standard Digital April 11, 2017 05:15 UTC