By NDUNGU GACHANEMore by this AuthorVeteran multi-party crusader Charles Rubia is dead. Rubia, 96, died in his Karen home in Nairobi on Monday, his family confirmed. Rubia, the first African mayor of Nairobi and long-serving MP and minister who agitated for a return to multiparty democracy, was among the few Kenyans to be detained twice during the Moi era. AdvertisementSubsequently, he was detained at Nyayo House in Nairobi for about five days, and was thereafter released without being arraigned or charges being preferred against him. Just before the rally, he was arrested on July 4 in the company of Matiba and detained for nine months.

Source: Daily Nation December 23, 2019 12:38 UTC