One morning while former Prime Minister Raila Odinga was at home, just out of the shower, he heard his vehicle rev to a stop outside the house.
He was surprised because he had instructed his driver to pick him up at 10am but it was now 7am.
Odinga narrated in his book, Flame of Freedom, that when he opened the door, three men stood beside his driver Agunga.
They introduced themselves as police officers and asked the former premier to accompany them to Central Police Station to assist in a matter.
Raila responded that it was too early and vowed to stop by later in the day. The officers declined Odinga's suggestions adding that it was an emergency.
Taking a hint, the ODM Party leader asked whether he was under arrest and they assured him that he wasn't.
"They repeated that people were waiting for me at the police station and the business would not take long," he narrated in his memoir.
Raila agreed and they all left the house heading to Central Police Station.
On arrival, he was booked and later on transferred to Special Branch offices where sleuths started questioning him about the coup attempt.
After a day of interrogation, Raila was taken to police cells where he spent the night.
On the second day, detectives told Odinga that they were individuals who were out to frame him for the mutiny.
As such, they advised Raila to disclose everything he knew about the plan by rebel soldiers to overthrow the government of President Daniel Moi, but he was adamant that he knew nothing.
Determined to force a confession out of him, the then Senior Superintendent Josiah Kipkirui Rono broke a wooden table and started pounding Raila with wood splinters.
The torture continued on the third day and went on until he was remanded in Kamiti Maximum Security Prison. Sometimes the torture was physical and on some occasions it was mental.
