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No human being should be locked up in such a place, says Johnstone Muthama after release

Machakos Senator Johnston Muthama

Our stay in the cells was pure torture. We were not beaten up but we were tortured. The environment under which we were kept and what we went through is unacceptable.

No human being deserves to be kept under such conditions. All the six of us were taken to one small room and slept on the floor.

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