Two weeks ago curtains came down on Carolyn Odongo, an African American who was the first woman in Kenya to be detained without trial under a draconian law introduced by Attorney-General Charles Njonjo in June 1966.
In introducing the Security law, Njonjo told Parliament about the dangers of war, internal disorder, breakdown of economic order and natural disaster.
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