MURDER MOST FOUL. On this day 33 years ago, Kenya’s minister of foreign affairs and international cooperation Dr. John Robert Ouko was grisly murdered by the then Energy Minister Kipyator Nicholas Kiprono arap Biwott, the then PS for interior Hezekiah Oyugi and some Kallenjine thugs in President Moi’s administration. It is believed that Moi, the church goer number one personally supervised the murder at State House Nakuru.
Ouko’s murder theory later assumed many dimensions. First it was announced in a special news bulletin by Presidenoi that Ouko had committed suicide! Then former Police Commissioners Philip Kilonzo made a press briefing that Ouko was killed in a love triangle involving his half brother Barack Mbaja and a beautiful nurse at Kisumu General Hospital. Kilonzo said Ouko and his brother were sharing the same lady. I wonder why the government killed him then took the whole nation in circles to the extent of calling the expensive international sleuth (Scotland Yard) and British Pathologist to investigate. Ouko never died alone, also eliminated were his shamba boy, the herdsman who found the body, the Kenya police superintendent Mr. Ombati who conducted the investigation and arrested Biwott. All the GSU Officers who were on duty when Biwott was ‘arrested’ and detained at GSU headquarters in Ruaraka. Also killed were the very PS Hezekiah Oyugi, the Chairman of the Public Law Institute who was a lawyer during the murder inquiry Dr. Oki Ooko Ombaka, Former Police Commissioners Philip Kilonzo. Former Nakuru DC
John Anguka went to exile before he was murdered and many others were killed by Kallenjine men to conceal evidence. They are believed to be 27 in number who were eliminated by the Kallenjines mafias. There was also attempt to poison the head of the Scotland Yard investigating team John Troon SP and his colleague Chief Inspector Sandy Sanderson and the chairman of the Parliamentary select Commitee on Ouko’s death and former Kisumu Town MP Nicholas Gor Sungu. in a twist of events, Biwott, the person who fired the shot at Ouko’s head was also afraid that Ouko’s ghost might haunt him and he made a will to be buried in a bullet proof coffin. Exit Moi enter Ruto.
This was a very messy incident.