Before he shot to fame as a politician, Cleophas Malala was well known in art and drama circles. He shoot to national limelight with the controversial play Shackles of Doom. Mombasa Senator Omar Hassan said the play was an important exposé of society's favouritism, nepotism, ethnicity, inequality and marginalisation. At 3am on Monday, August 17, the Kakamega senator put out an SOS that at least 20 DCI detectives had arrived at his Kitengela home to arrest him. "Shackles of Doom addressed issues of inequality in distribution of resources in this country.

Source: The Star August 30, 2020 09:00 UTC