National Assembly Speaker Moses Masika Wetang’ula/FILE
If you doubt that National Assembly Speaker Moses Masika
Wetang’ula, is a brave man,
you only need to recall 1982,
when as a young lawyer, he stepped
forward to represent the coup plotters of that year, led by Senior Private
Hezekiah Ochuka, at their treason
trial.
This was under the infamous
single-party rule, and a police state,
in any association with people who
had just tried to overthrow the constitutional order could have been
seen as inviting jail or death.
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