So mukiha wewe ni maee kuliko hawa wa NSIS.....wow!!!!!

I lose my bearings, was the coup attempt before or after NYS? You remember Mwandawiro's guard of honour - I thought that was before the coup?

Do you remember the swearing? The first few days I was in shock. I could not believe someone can swear like that. Haki ya m***? Being sworn by an afande. How? Hiyo ndio discipline.

I used to call my friend afande. One day our commandant overheard us. He was so incessed. Siku hiyo tulimea.

That guard of honour was in 1985; the coup attempt was 1982

Now that @Mukiha has mentioned 1985, I now remember what occasioned the long university closure that necessitated a double intake for both 1985 and 1986 "A" groups.

Moi had closed the university indefinitely and literally thrown the keys into the indian ocean.

Now Mwandawiro's action should be a good lesson to the current idiots who think that they can only be heard when they throw stones and beat up pedestrians and motorists on the streets...

Sorry; Naivasha, not Gilgil

Olskulaz maze 2nawarspect 2 xana!

@ mpenzi,

looks like you were not in the last lot...wendz is right...

this is what happened,

after the passing out parade the pre-uni kamneiz were advised that they would represent the university community in the first nyayo era (actually error) celebrations which were to be held on 1/10/1988 in Nyayo stadium...it was an occassion which was going to have so many groups and organisations represented in a grand march along with the military...

the only freshers who had been admittedand reported to university before that date were university of Nairobi and the KU...MOI and Egerton were to report much later (january 1989 i think)...the freshers who had been admitted in the universities spent two weeks in the colleges and were ferried back to the NYS Gilgil using the University buses to start the nyayo era matching practices...

mind you it had been made clear that this was a presidential invitation and as such the participants at the NYS would be entitled to 5 star treatment and not the previous experience that that the pre-uni kamneiz went through....

in NYS we were received rather well, but the first meal on arrival was ndengus and rice, just like the previous meals...everyone was jittery...supper the same story...we enquired but we were told that there was a logistical problem that required to be solved and everything would be streamlined...

day number 2...breakfast, the same treatment as previously...lunch and supper the same...the participants complaints on meals fell on deaf ears...

day number three...enough was enough...broke into the kitchens and guys made away with loaves, powder milk, sugar etc....lunch hour guys went to Gilgil town and abudoned the matching practice...the tension was building rather fast...in the evening, no supper and then...one of the boys was harassed by some ncios as he was leaving the ladies barracks and was frogmatched into the institutions cells...

this is when the hell broke loose...the pre-uni guys grouped and matched one by one to the cells...broke in and got the comrade out as they unhooked all the curtains and made a bonfire...and as fire lit spitting some angry tongues of flames more than 10 feet up, the kamneiz guys were singing at the top of their voices."moooto umewaka leo...moooto umewaka leo....tuimbe haleluya moto umewaka"...the time was around 9.00pm at night..

in the meantime the regulars and ncios were grouping near the sewage pods preparing for an all out war....

niendelee ama nisiendelee????

am waiting for the juicy part