It is now one year since the late former Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Ole Nkaissery died in circumstances that cannot still be explained. Nkaissery, a career military man died on the eve of the controversial August 8th elections and a section of Kenyans have not come to terms with what happened.
Controversial lawyer and former Nairobi gubernatorial candidate Miguna Miguna has now alleged that the retired general was killed because he had refused to collude in rigging the elections.
In a long FaceBook post, Miguna says that Nkaissery was his close friend and contributed ksh 500,000 for his campaigns. You can read the post below for yourself and decide whether Miguna is right or wrong.
By Miguna Miguna
General Joseph Ole Nkaissery was a good friend of mine and a disciplined Kenyan. He donated Kshs. 500,000 (the highest single donation) for my gubernatorial race in 2017.
Days before he was murdered, we met at the Ole Sereni Hotel for lunch and he told me that Uhuru Kenyatta and his close associates had designed a plot to rig the 2017 election then use the security forces to brutally suppress an uprising which they knew would occur thereafter.
Nkaissery told me that he would not allow anyone to use him like they had used General Hussein Ali during the 2007/8 post-election violence, which took Ali to Den Haag. He was determined not to repeat Ali’s “grievous errors,” as he called them.
At a meeting with Uhuru Kenyatta at State House, Nairobi, on July 7, 2017, General Nkaissery told him that he [Gen. Nkaissery] would not preside over the mass murder of Kenyans. But Uhuru Kenyatta would have none of it.
General Nkaissery was injected with a lethal chemical on his way home from the State House, Nairobi, less than one hour before he collapsed and died.
Predictably, the “cause of death” was reported as “cardiac arrest.”
What Kenyans must be told is that all death result from cardiac arrest.
Everyone dies of cardiac arrest; whether you are shot at, knifed, poisoned or crashed by a boulder.
Cardiac arrest is just the medical jargon that the “heart stopped beating” and denied the brain oxygen.
The first official but contradictory statement about General Nkaissery’s death was bizarrely issued by Uhuru’s Chief of Staff, Joseph Kinyua.
It claimed that “The General” – as close friends like me used to call him – had died “while undergoing treatment at the Karen Hospital.”
The contents of that statement were roundly contradicted by Mrs. Nkaissery, whose statements could also not stand up to close logical scrutiny.
When I telephoned General Nkaissery’s security detail, they claimed that the General collapsed and died “after we had returned from a one-hour jog.” Later, they claimed that “the General collapsed and died after he had changed into his tracksuit as we prepared to go jogging.” Yet when I caught up with them at the Lee Funeral Home, one whispered into my ears that “the General died at the Karen Hospital. The General was walking when we arrived at the hospital.”
The stories about The General’s last day had mutated like the IEBC’s figures that were being streamed to the public on August 8th and 9th, 2017.
Those stories were blatant lies. The General had died long before he was taken to the Karen Hospital as a cover-up.
When Uhuru Kenyatta wants to stay in power, he is ready to cause mayhem, commit mass murder and bribe anyone on his path.
Genuine friends must seek justice for their departed comrades. I’m a genuine friend. I stand with General Nkaissery. Long Live The General.
Uhuru Kenyatta is a murderer. He is not a man who should be allowed to tour Nyanza and sell his rotten fictional bridges with his fake “brother.”
Justice will and must be done.
The despots will and must fall.
Aluta Continua!
Writer’s Verdict
Miguna Miguna could be right but the question everyone should be asking is if he is objective. The self proclaimed NRM General is one of Uhuru’s biggest critics and will do everything and anything to tarnish his name. There is also the small issue of why Miguna could have stayed with this information for a whole year before revealing it. The lawyer could just be trying to take advantage of a trending topic. But that is my opinion.