High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Jean-Marie Seroney (25 July 1927 - 6 December 1982) was one of Kenya’s most ardent human rights defenders, an outstanding legislator and prisoner of conscience. He served as the Member of Parliament for Nandi from 1961 to 1966 and for Tinderet from 1966 to 1975, when he was arrested and detained without trial. He fiercely defended the independence of Parliament at a time when it was fast becoming an arm of the Executive and worked hard to introduce bills that would remove excessive powers vested in the President as a result of the numerous amendments to the Kenya Constitution. He had helped craft the Constitution in Lancaster in 1962 but decried wanton abuse of power by the Executive and those around it. He condemned corruption in high places, unfair distribution of national wealth, theft of land from the poor and landless, the chaotic resettlement program and abuse of office by those in power. He soon made powerful enemies in high places a...

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