Citizen TV journalist Jeff Koinange recently recounted the suffering his family endured during Kenya's pre-independence era, revealing that 15 family members were imprisoned, including his father and grandfather.

• Jeff Koinange's father, Fredrick Mbiu Koinange, and grandfather, Chief Mbiu Koinange, were detained for a combined 16 years.
• The detentions were indefinite, without parole or trial, and designed to break individuals and their families.
• The total detention period for all 15 family members, if combined, could span over a century.
• On December 12, 1963, Kenya's Independence Day, Jeff Koinange's father wept at Uhuru Gardens upon witnessing the nation's freedom.