On 3rd March 1975 JM Kariuki’s decomposing body was found by a Maasai herdsman
The mutilated body was discovered on a forest track at Olosho Oibor .days after he had been reported missing.
The body had no fingers, its eyes had been gouged out and some of the front teeth were missing.
Although the herdsman reported the matter at 10.00 am in the morning it took the police 24 hours to collect the body which was later transferred to city motuary.
Back in Nairobi Vice president Daniel Arap Moi was busy misleading parliament how JM Kariuki was in Zambia.
Paragraph 5 of parliamentary select committee report on the murder dated 5th June 1975 , mentioned GSU commandant Ben Gethi as the murderer if not an accomplice of the murderers of JM Kariuki. Assistant Commissioner of police Sokhi Singh ,police reservist Patrick Shaw ,Nakuru Mayor Mburu Gichua ,Nyandarua DC Stanley Thuo ,Peter Karanja Mbiyu Koinange’s bodyguard,Councillor John Mutung’u of Ngong ward,General China deputy director NYS ,Wanyoike Thungu the the president’s security chief,Pius Kibathi ,Peter Njau and the Director of CID Ignatius Nderi.
Mbiyu Koinange was also mentioned but his name was purged from the report .
In 1984 Mr Gethi ,who was named as a principal in the murder of JM Kariuki ,telephoned JM’s sister, Rahab, then a secretary in the office of the Local Government Minister Moses Mudavadi to make a confession.
Mr Gethi had known Rahab as a child. He told her that he wished to discuss something important and asked her to bring Terry( JM Kariuki’s wife) along.
The meeting took place at Mr Gethi’s Rosslyn estate home on Limuru Road.
At the meeting Mr Gethi began by apologising that it had taken him over ten years to “open up” to the family. He then proceeded to give his version of JM’s murder and explained that he had been ordered to look for the MP and deliver him to a security team investigating the OTC bomb blast.
Mr Gethi told the two women that he delivered JM to the interrogating team and left. He reportedly said that the next time he saw JM, he was bathed in blood and was groaning in agony.
The MP was then hurled into the boot of a waiting car by Mr Kibathi and two other men. The National Youth Service’s Deputy Director, Mr Waruhiu Itote also known as General China stood by supervising the operation.
Mr Gethi insisted that he had no idea where Kibathi and his team took JM. He only came to hear that the politician’s body had been found at Olosho Oibor, a forest at the foot of Ngong Hills.
CIA in its analysis of JM Kariuki, just before he was murdered, referred to him as a spokesman for the discontented and also described him as an “opportunistic ,aggressive and a highly skilled publicist” who derived some support from young Luos and Abaluhyas “but depended mostly on his fellow Northern Kikuyus who were fed up with the tight grip of Southern Kikuyus on the machinery state.”
Kariuki was buried on 17th March 1975 on his expansive Kanyamwi farm ,among those who attended his burial were ,students from the university of Nairobi ,Mwai Kibaki and Alphonse Okuku (Tom Mboya’s brother)
(courtesy of Odhiambo Levin Opiyo)
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