Year in Year out, a high profile murder has to take place in the Country. What is even more shocking about these murders is the fact that we have never witnessed any meaningful prosecution done.
If anything, the Kenyan Police have time and again been accused of working so hard to cover up for this murders by giving imaginary theories to help protect the key suspects behind them.
The death of Dandora based Human Rights activist Caroline Mwatha has again but the police on the Spotlight and despite giving their own version of events that led to her death, a number of Kenyans feel that there is more to what meets the eye.
One of those Kenyans is Boniface Mwangi who has this to say:
“In May of 2016, When Jacob Juma was murdered, police said he was last seen with a woman.
When IEBC official Chris Msando was assassinated in July 2017, they killed the young woman he was allegedly last seen with, in a bid to malign his reputation. Her name was Carol Ngumbu. She was barely 21.
Kenya is a very pretentious country. The moment an ordinary person is seen with someone they’re not married to, or found to have committed an error of judgment, we are so quick to believe whatever lies the police or politicians feed us.
But if you’re rich and influential, politicians will host you, churches will roll out the red carpet for you to speak from the pulpit and media will extol your virtues as though you were a saint.
We know of politicians who beat their wives, have sired children in every village, steal, rape and kill, yet they will never be executed in cold blood by the police, nor
will the police ever share contents of their text messages with the public.
The police didn’t give us Mutula Kilonzo’s sordid sexual history when he died in his Maanzoni ranch.
I haven’t seen the same effort being used to discredit Caroline Mwatha, applied in corruption cases.
It’s only used in murder cover-ups, like Msando’s and Juma’s.
When Sharon Otieno was allegedly killed by Governor Okoth Obado her past sexual relations were brought up.
In matters abortion, most private hospitals in Kenya offer walk-in abortions but more than 2,600 poor women and girls die every year due to unsafe abortions – a staggering seven lives per day. It’s the poor who die for things the rich access easily every day.
If someone dies in your house, or car, the mortuary cannot receive the body without a police occurrence book (OB) report. I once picked a hit-and-run victim and rushed him to the hospital.
Unfortunately, he died on the way. I was forced to go to the police to report his death and get an OB number, before the mortuary would accept his body.
This we know for sure, Caroline did not kill herself. She was murdered. Her killers checked her body into the City Mortuary, like one would a library book. How callous? When did life become so cheap?
Why were they allowed to book the body without an OB number?
Robert Ouko was murdered, but the police claimed he committed suicide by shooting himself in the head, pouring petrol on his body and setting himself on fire. Mysteriously, anyone who was involved in the Ouko case died shortly thereafter.
A parliamentary report prepared in 2005 stated that former Foreign Affairs Minister Robert Ouko was killed at State House, Nakuru.
It further reported that he was murdered in cold blood, his body mutilated in the presence of Nicholas Biwott and President Daniel arap Moi. His body was then dumped near his Koru home.
When outspoken government critic, Father Kaiser, was found dead on that cold August morning in 2000, it was reported that police claimed he was shot in a “gangland style execution.”
The story would later change when the Kenya Police and FBI colluded to concoct a story claiming that the Catholic priest committed suicide.
They claimed that he shot himself in the head with a shotgun and walked to an Acacia tree where he lay down his own body. The United States Congress passed a joint resolution calling Fr. Kaiser’s death “an ssassination”, but the rapist, warmonger, who orchestrated his murder, became our ambassador to China and went on to run for governor.”