It is with sadness that former President Daniel Moi’s family has announced the passing on of Jonathan Moi Toroitich. The son of former President Daniel Moi, died Friday evening in Nakuru.
Ex-President Moi’s Press Secretary Lee Njiru confirmed Saturday.It was not immediately clear what caused Mr Toroitich’s death.
Many have since sent in their condolences messages. However immediately he started trending, another Julie Ward followed suit.
Ward’s murder was brutal and involved rape and political connections.
Moi, Kibaki and Uhuru administrations have been accused of shielding the suspected mastermind of the murder, variously named as Jonathan Moi. 31 years later, murder remains unresolved.
It was alleged that it was Jonathan Moi who raped and killed British tourist Julie Ward in 1988. But his father together with Biwot did all they could to silence anyone who talked about it, including threatening Julie Ward’s family.
Apparently the dictator’s son along with his bodyguards was on his way to inspect another of his farms when he saw Julie Ward and got an itch. He decided to do what he used to do with any woman he fancied: rape. He left her nursing her bruises.
A pathologist also highlighted increasingly outlandish attempts by the Kenyan police to rule out murder. At a meeting attended by the commissioner of police, one officer, Inspector Murchuri Wanjau, suggested that Ms Ward was sexually promiscuous and had killed herself. Dr Shaker said: “Wanjau said she was a ‘loose girl’. He talked of suicide and how she could have cut herself up and lit a fire which spread.”
After being accused of stealing money from a drunk driver and forced to surrender his passport, the pathologist said he left Kenya in 1992 and was not asked to give evidence to fresh inquiries, including an investigation by Scotland Yard. In a separate development, Mr Ward said that he also met a white Kenyan with close links to both the police and the British High Commission who tried to convince him that his daughter had been killed by a lightning bolt.