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In 2008, Sarah Onyango, Hussein Onyango's third wife, told journalists that "white soldiers" had visited the prison every few days to inflict what was described as "disciplinary action" upon inmates suspected of subversion. "He said they would sometimes squeeze his testicles with parallel metallic rods," she said. "They also pierced his nails and buttocks with a sharp pin, with his hands and legs tied together with his head facing down." Onyango is said to have been left permanently scarred. He was also bitterly anti-British.
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That's seriously contradicted by a relatives and a senior Kenyan police official.
Zablon Okatch, who worked with Onyango as a servant to American diplomats after the supposed incarceration, said:
Hussein was never jailed. I know that for a fact. It would have been difficult for him to get a job with a white family, let alone a diplomat, if he once served in jail.
Charles Oluoch, whose father was adopted by Onyango, said that he did not have any trouble with the government in any way'.
Dick Opar, a relative by marriage to Onyango and a senior Kenyan police official, gave what Maraniss judged to be the most authoritative word. People make up stories, he said. If you get arrested, you say it was the fight for independence, but they are arrested for another thing.
I would have known. I would have known. If he was in Kamiti Prison for only a day, even if for a day, I would have known.
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And there are absolutely no records of incarceration whatsoever. Maybe his grandfather was a composite like his composite girlfriend in his memoirs.