Youth demonstrate during Saba Saba in Nairobi, July 1990. On May 23, 1990, Matiba let out a political thunderbolt. They did not say a word to Matiba, Rubia and Raila Odinga. Kamukunji and the aborted rally dubbed Saba Saba became a rallying call for mass protests to pressurise the government to scrap the contentious Section 2a of the constitution which had made Kenya a single-party state. Anyona, Kathangu, Ngotho, Oyugi and an estimated 5,000 other people were arrested.

Source: Standard Digital July 07, 2021 09:00 UTC