JUDGMENT
The background to this appeal is the 1st August 1982 coup attempt in Kenya. Thirty years after the event, the appellant, who described himself as a “military intelligence sergeant” at the material time in the then Department of Defence, filed a petition in the High Court of Kenya against the respondents alleging violation of his rights under the present and the former constitutions of Kenya. He pleaded, in an amended petition dated 23rd July 2013 that following the coup attempt, he was unlawfully arrested and detained from 1st August to October 1982 and ultimately lost his employment in unlawful circumstances. He added that he was detained in different places in Kenya, starved, held in isolation, and subjected to torture, inhuman or degrading punishment or other treatment. Regarding his loss of employment, he pleaded that his certificate of discharge was issued unprocedurally and by an unauthorised officer.
The appellant further pleaded that his arrest, detention and loss of em…