Kenneth Matiba, a prominent politician and businessman, was detained in the period surrounding the 1988 election. Matiba was accused of making seditious statements and of calling for democratic reform. His detention demonstrated the government's use of the detention power to suppress dissent. Matiba's detention, along with that of Charles Rubia, showed the government's intolerance of political dissent in the post-1988 election period. Matiba would later emerge as a leading figure in the Second Liberation movement.
See Also
- 1988 Election
- Kenneth Matiba
- Daniel arap Moi
- Kenya Detention System
- Second Liberation Kenya
- Kenya Human Rights 1980s
Sources
- Widner, Jennifer. The Rise of a Party-State in Kenya. University of California Press, 1992.
- Amnesty International. "Kenya: A Human Rights Review." 1988.
- Gitonga, Ezra. "Moi's Kenya: Social Engineering in a Kleptocratic State." In Rogue States and State Sponsors of Terrorism. Edited by Robert Rotberg, 2007.