Scars, a reminder of the State's terror in Mt Elgon

Pius Zachary Nyongesa, a resident of Walanga village in Mt Elgon, Bungoma County during an interview with The Standard. He was suspected to be a member of February Eighteenth Revolution Army that was against the government in 1990's. [Mumo Munuve Standard]

Moses Miruni gets upset when one mentions FERA, an acronym for February 18 Revolutionary Army. FERA is a guerrilla movement the State believed existed at the foot of Mt Elgon on the Kenya-Uganda border in the 1990s, whose leader was Brigadier John Odongo.

Miruni says the movement caused hundreds of then Mount Elgon youth “lifelong troubles” for falsely being labelled members of the ragtag formation.

“I have never set eyes on the guy, but I suffered and still continue to suffer following the claims that I was his follower,” says the father of three.