Lieutenant Joseph Kariha and Henry Kamau are the latest servicemen to sue the government over brutalities that befell them after the 1982 coup. In their case now before the High Court, they claim they were arrested, driven to Athi River Prison cells, stripped naked, placed in cells filled with cold water and tortured for weeks. Kariha and Kamau may add to the more than Sh2 billion already owed by the government to ex-servicemen who have won cases against the Kenya Defence Forces and the Ministry of Defence. In his case, Kamau told the court that he was enlisted on January 20, 1989, for…
