Otherwise how are we going to get important information from them? They are out to destroy everything we value in our society" Most of this torture took place at Nyayo House and Nyati House in Nairobi. Bernard Chunga, the then Deputy Public Prosecutor, prosecuted most of the Mwakenya cases. Some suspects were arrested, charged and convicted within one day. Most were not allowed to have legal representation. Chunga would tell the presiding judges that the suspects had devised various ways to overthrow the government through an underground organization called Mwakenya. H. H. Buch, who was the Nairobi chief magistrate then, heard a majority of the cases. Moi told the public that Mwakenya members were not ordinary Kenyans but rather bearded intellectuals who were keen on serving their foreign masters at the expense of the common citizen. He said that they all had passports and would flee Kenya the moment the country was plunged into turmoil, a luxury not many Kenyans had. Prominent Detainees The following are some of the notable people who were detained on charges of being affiliated with the Mwakenya Movement: Wanyiri Kihoro Kiongo Maina Mwandawiro Mghanga Katama Mkangi Wahome Mutahi Lumumba Odenda Oduor Ong'wen (once Chairman, NGO Council) Women Protests In 1992, mothers from Central Kenya whose sons had been arrested for involvement with the Mwakenya Movement gathered at Uhuru Park after efforts to have attorney general Amos Wako release their sons failed. These mothers included Nobel Peace laureate Wangari Maathai and Monica Wangu Wamwere, Koigi wa Wamwere's mother. The women had staged a hunger strike at the park for several months before the Moi administration sent security forces to chase the women away. The women retaliated by stripping naked. This caused most of the security officers to flee as it is considered a curse in some communities for one to see a mother's nudity. By July 1993, all detainees had been freed. The section of Uhuru Park where the women had pitched tent is now called 'Freedom Corner'. Ugandan involvement President Moi strongly suspected that the National Resistance Movement (NRM) (which governed Uganda since 1986) was supporting the Mwakenya Movement. The Mwakenya and NRM were both left-leaning groups, while the Kenyan government and the NRM were hostile towards each other. The Kenyan government confirmed that NRM officials allowed Mwakenya fighters to travel freely through Uganda, providing them with passports and other documents. In turn, Kenya armed