Jonah Anguka And The Ouko Murder Mystery

Dimz_Fala · September 8, 2017, 2:46am

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Dimz_Fala · September 11, 2017, 12:05am

This is a piece on Jonah Anguka based on information in the public domain.
It was actually motivated by a clip on You Tube that apparently portrayed Jonah Anguka as one of the poor chickens, and sorry luhyas about the birds, under the aegis of a couple of starving wolves on Hen Pen guard duty…It’s a surmise that I am authoritatively confident that the vast majority will second me in the inescapable conclusion I reached.

Buckle Up And Shoot:
JONAH ANGUKA AND THE OUKO MURDER MYSTERY
Jonah Anguka. Many Kenyans view this guy as a hardworking law abiding citizen that in effect was a fall guy or a patsy in the Ouko Murder mystery, the sacrificial lamb oppressed by the state. If Jonah Anguka is reading this you need to get from behind those blinds and come explain the amazing stuff you were doing pertaining to the Ouko murder investigation. All else read from top to bottom and see if this is the innocent bystander in the Ouko murder and you might be quite surprised at what will be revealed if you did not yet know it. Jonah Anguka should issue a rebuttal for what he agrees not with……

And your account of the Ouko murder mystery “Absolute Power” is wonderfully choreographed to portray you as a saint….did you yourself Jonah Anguka actually believe your own book?

I will apologize in advance that I have typed but not proof read this rhetoric monologue…

This is writing is on one Jonah Anguka, who served as Nakuru DC from the mid 80s to early 90s , from information available in the public domain.

He was the only one to be tried for Ouko’s Murder on two occasions, the first of which was vacated due to the death of the presiding judge, whilst the second trial resulted in the acquittal of Jonah Anguka.

Wipe that smile off your face and train your eyes on the screen for visual consumption.

You may begin with a basic query……

To what extent was Jonah Anguka the scape goat in conjunction with the abduction and murder of Hon. Dr. John Robert Ouko, who served as Kenya’s Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Moi regime?

The inescapable conclusion I arrive at the end is one that I am fully confident the preponderant majority will be in approbation, while significantly much lesser will constitute the opprobrium crowd:

Make sure you read this from start to finish to grasp the totality of the assessment as it addresses some of the myths surrounding Ouko’s murder that have been largely accepted as the absolute truth, with specific emphasis on Jonah Anguka due to his scarcely envious legacy as the only one prosecuted unsuccessfully in a court of law for Ouko’s murder.

Many may have considered him as the fall guy or patsy; in effect a hapless victim of oppression by the state, which in turn was perceived as having exacted wanton brutality including specific acts the resultant effect of which is a state inconsistent with human life, or rather assassination to be succinct, all at the peril of this law abiding citizen Jonah Anguka. In short order though it will become quite apparent that not all that glitters is gold, or rather that the gilded cloak of propriety that Jonah Anguka donned, when peeled back revealed an underbelly that was simply inconsistent with the cloak in the order of mutually exclusive binaries.

Kenyans love and are fascinated by political conspiracies and especially unsolved murder mysteries, one of the greatest of which was Ouko’s murder mystery. The more bizarre the spectacles the merrier the consumption of the drama that unfolds. By and large wananchi have had the consensus Ouko’s assassination was an implied executive order meaning someone in Moi’s private bubble ordered the hit with the tacit approval of the president on the premise he was a serious political threat to Moi, and that they were acting proactively in the best interest of the president of course with the expectation of reciprocity in copious patronage to the faithful flocks.

This discourse will first deal with some more overarching topics, realities of the political landscape around the time Ouko was assassinated and perhaps a few of the possible motives.

I will quickly insert a retort to the foregoing as applicable to the Ouko case. Firstly, Ouko’s political dominance contemporaneous to the political landscape of the late 80s to early 90s was not a creature of Armageddon with four horses that spewed flames with every breath. It is important to underscore the glaring fact that by this period at the dawn of instigation towards multiparty politics that indeed yes Ouko was a force to be reckoned with as a brilliant, articulate, and visionary leader, but he was not THE dominating principal in politics to cost Moi night after night of sleepless reflection of ways and means of stemming the political avalanche in his wake, but rather Ouko was ONE among various principals and in fact probably not the one at the top of that list either. We seem to put a cloud of mist over our faces to not recognize the political mavericks of the time not the least of which included the likes of Jaramogi Odinga, Mwai Kibaki, and Kenneth Matiba et al. For a mental exercise I will juxtapose Ouko against the other 3 principals on a podium. Very quickly it becomes apparent that say Jaramogi and Kibaki were much more polished politicians and both of them had occupied the number 2 spot in Kenya amongst other achievements, but they were breathing at the conclusion of the first elections held in a multiparty landscape for Kenya in 1992. That is a very important point that cannot be understated. It is not the case that Ouko was imminently on the verge of political ascendancy to the very pinnacle of Kenyan politics, but he most certainly was a very potent candidate amongst others and almost certainly behind some. That should fell myth number 1 myth that it was simply ineluctable that Ouko was taking over Kenyan politics and had to be stopped. Keep in mind that there are actions which we could say are in the best interest of say the incumbent and that time round Moi but which were not necessarily perpetrated by him or the cronies in his private bubble.

I will now beg of you to permit me to engage in a favorite pass time for me; speculation. The synthesis of scenarios and the injection of congruency to those scenarios. In politics it is probably important to properly understand the relationship between causes and effects. As a cardinal rule specific courses of action generally tend to have effects, unless of course we are in that brutish solipsistic Hobbesian jungle where the only certifiable truth is that you are necessarily as you make the proclamation for that malevolent demon cannot trick into being that which is not.

Political Assassination:

Often political assassinations are carried out to achieve certain end goals. Sometimes things unfold as intended but more often than not seemingly capricious events have a propensity to cause interactions far beyond, or even contrary to the original objectives. In a political association there are benefactors and there are losers. For example if my perennial political nemesis meets an untimely death by chocking on a toothpick chances are that the probability of me winning the contest are somehow boosted at the end of the day. So projecting that to the real world when some of these assassinations occur it is either in the best interest or counter to the best interests for the incumbent. Of course there is a distinct possibility my arch nemesis indeed chocked on a toothpick with fatal consequences which is not to say that I am the cause, because of the beneficent effect it has on my political career. And such can be extended to say the Ouko murder. After Ouko was assassinated it probably was more in the broader interests of the incumbent, even though they might suffer some sort of vacuum in the exemplary reputation Ouko helped to cultivate for Kenya and for Moi, but perhaps the reduced footprint of political competition in the aftermath prevailed. Generally the regime will be expected to take some sort of action to right the wrong or make accountable the perpetrators. But politics is of course not that clean. It may be who knows the case, Ouko was struck by lightning but the strictly bottom line implication is less political competition for the incumbent emerges, which is not to say that the deed necessarily gets attributed to the incumbent. Moreover, unfortunately, and perhaps more than we would like, when events such as political assassination of a key political figure occurs, the benefits of figuring out the truths are outweighed by the gains of that parable whose answer is never realized. In Ouko’s case the common denominator seemed to reveal that in the long run it was probably in the interest of the incumbent regime that the solution remained out of reach, after their cold calculations. Now the original execution might have been from a source within the government or probably not. The fundamental attribution error of looking at the effect of say the untimely death of a key political figure, naturally there is a tendency to arrive at conclusions that more likely than not a state agency was involved, or rather that the presumptively postulated cause naturally follows. But this is a result of flawed thinking absent concrete proof. It might well have been executed from within the government, or not, but nonetheless a cover up operation is done in the shadowy alleys of the government, to create discombobulation that leads ultimately to inevitable failure to unveil the truth, really the precisely intended end state. On the other hand, another highly plausible scenario is overlooked; execution from without the government meaning government did not execute, coupled with a cover up by the government, because assessments have established that is the course of action with least demerits and most benefit for the incumbent regime. And, ladies and gentlemen, the Ouko murder mystery may well have played out to that last scenario-execution without the government coupled with cover up within. At the end of the day, the execution may well have been from within the government, or rogue enclaves within the government, or entirely without the government, with a cover up operation that is positively known to have been effected by the government to balance its calculations. I will give a condensed version of a possible scenario with the Ouko case.

There are two key reasons Ouko’s killing appeared to implicate the government in execution, even though the only part that is certain is the subsequent government clean up. Cleaning political messes can indeed prove really messy, as was clearly evinced in the ouko case. Basically there were two hierarchical layers of cover up; Use of entities within the government to effect the phase one cleanup operations, elements of which might well have been culpable at the execution level to begin with. Thereafter, there was a nested operation to clean up the very entities that were engaged in the phase one cover up.

Two important reasons the execution was pinned on the government:

First, the Molasses plant debacle, which I willl not go into details here, but if Detective Troon had done his due diligence at the inception of the investigation process, and cross checked Marianne Briner-Mattern, and Domenico Airaghi at the very beginning, he would have established that Airaghi was a fugitive conman wanted in Milan literally speaking, that Marianne a pathological liar and self-proclaimed slut who had slept with any and practically all the pants in high office that could prop her ambitions up, and that very importantly, the BAK Group they belonged to none but a flimsy chimera, the whole bizarre implication of Biwott from unrealized kickbacks was squarely silly.

Second was Barrack Mbaja’s fantastic stories:

He is the origin of the Washington Trip debacles where Ouko met privately met with Bush to the exclusion of Moi much to the chagrin of Biwott, and for which retaliation was mandatory and ultimate. Barrack was nowhere on the trip and the other gentleman that he peddled that story along with was not in the trip. The Washington Trip Row was so pronounced in the media, almost at biblical proportions and that was also a bunch of nonsense. And as a side note Barrack Mbajah was probably the most despicable character in the whole Saga and probably a part of the plot that snuffed life out of his estranged brother. Jonah Anguka was a strong competitor as you shall realize further on.

Another important omission by Troon was his close to non-existent follow up on the family row which in all likeliness was perhaps a factor with a triple underlined significance.

I’m sure many must be wondering in their heads why the name Biwott has not been mentioned thus far? Afterall, about the whole country believed he was responsible for taking Ouko, particularly on those twin fantasies of Molasses and Washington Trip, both certified garbage, but keep reading and see what your thoughts are at the end.

Truth be said, Ouko’s murder was probably an amalgamation of rogue entities within the government fused with personal grudges to be sorted out to account for the execution, followed by the government cover-up process that involved purgatory action by some entities within the government, and ultimately wiping out those entities from the previous phase to get a sanitized end state. Just when you thought politics was not fun and dirt.

So if you take this trinity of factors into consideration: Fell the Molasses Fiasco, Fell the Washington Trip Row, and establish that Ouko was in fact perhaps NOT Moi’s top political threat, whence cometh the venom to wipe him out?

Good question and that is where the disco lights flash on the screen by starting to raise names such as Jonah Anguka, who’s behavior as set out below here, will lead to a virtually inescapable conclusion and if at the end you find yourself to disagree with the conclusion of this read at the very end, please detail your rebuttal, for it should make for interesting dialogue.

I will unequivocally state that presented all available information the single greatest threat to Ouko’s life was not Moi or Biwott, but Ouko’s own brother Barrack Mbajah who feuded with Ouko from 86 till his death, and even campaigned against Ouko in support of Joab Omino in 88 elections where Ouko won tenuously with less than 2000 votes in the Kisumu contest. I feel this sense of certainty that Anguka was probably at the site of murder if he didn’t do it himself.

A potentially deadly man by the name Jonah Anguka literally invited himself to the head of the table in the Ouko Murder Investigation! I think in Kenya’s street parlance we call it “Kudoea”. He painted a very huge Bill Board during the investigations with all his 6 or so names, as you shall see, to the effect that, they used his actions to generate his motive; love triangle. He forced the investigation team to coin a motive for him, this man. With Anguka’s wife being Ouko’s Personal Assistant, and to be brutally honest, coupled with Ouko’s record with women, it is very easy to see how problems real or imagined might prove equally deadly. For those quick to wit there is scarcely the need to proceed, but that I will woo you to proceed with this epochal adventure through Anguka land and let’s see where it leads us.

Selina Were:

Selina Were: She was the Ouko family maid in their Koru Home and she took care of th house when they were absent.
Does anybody know what she said when they tape recorded her on Ouko’s death? Troon felt she was holding out, and had a phone line tapped and they got Selina to speak with somebody she trusted about the murder. If you hadn’t heard this before, you might be surprised, and I apologize for the potato you just choked on, but do you know who she attributed Ouko’s death to? Barrack Mbajah, Ouko’s Brother, and she proceeded to list the various entities that were the working group. Unsurprisingly, had the likes of Oyugi, Anguka, Barrack Himself, Joab Omino and few others and the account is not as far-fetched as you might think. The greatest error committed in the investigation was that political drama with tunnel vision trained on Biwott, who as Total Man was Deadlier Than Deadly, but I harbor great reservations with respect to this case. Selina Were of course denied all of it when brought in for questioning, and it is not known how she learnt what she said, and the plausibility is further bolstered by the fact Selina was the one person short of the abductors and the victim, who saw the most and my conjecture is she definitely saw more than she stated but perhaps mortified for her life, she didn’t make any attributions. Hers was a safe testimony clearly seeing a white a white car towards the lower gate with perfect visibility due to security lighting but conveniently unable to identify anyone. I am sure she must have been chatted with and expressly warned in no uncertain terms what she was not allowed to mouth out, after all, her boss, a whole Cabinet Minister, was dispatched like a dog in the street, what of a defiant her?

Other potential miscellaneous motives:

Marianne Briner-Mattern and Airaghi: To get even with Ouko, who they politically helped in the 88 elections, but switched ministries from Industry to Foreign Affairs, and needless to mention, they didn’t reap any harvests. Method Used: Create feuds between Ouko and those around him about affairs and yadi yada tenga utawale halafu utwange. Not as implausible as it may seem prima facie.

Scorned Wife: Mrs. Ouko was overloaded with revelations the last 6 weeks of Ouko’s life, with the affairs that, all but her knew about including a 7 year old Ouko had fathered with a mistress that he confessed to her about

If you take a random box and throw in the names: Hezekiah Oyugi, Barrack Mbaja, and Jonah Anguka, it’s almost inconceivable that you miss a minimum of close to 66% of directly culpability

Jonah Anguka: Motive can be summarized as Love Triangle

Now down to Anguka and Others let’s scroll further down:

We know the proposition that it was conceivable there might have been an affair ,or a perceived imaginary affair, the effect and backlash of which is essentially the same, between Ouko and Mrs. Anguka. That hypothesis might have proved so vitriolic to Anguka, that the ultimate price was the cost for Ouko, but again, this is not necessarily what happened, but rather Anguka’s behavior right before and during the preliminary stages of the investigation, which had him seemingly omnipresent everywhere there were key developments in Ouko’s case, and this is despite the fact that he was Nakuru DC, while Dr. Ouko was cabinet minister as well as MP for Kisumu Town; In other words Ouko’s murder was not the prerogative of Anguka’s Chain of Command, and thus experientially he was elevated to the status of prime suspect, because his chain was through the PC of Rift Valley and ultimately under the cloak of Hezekiah Oyugi, who was the PS in the Ministry of Internal Security, a very powerful branch being under the umbrella that encapsulated the Police Forces, Intelligence etc. As DC for Nakuru DC Anguka had a significantly high clout inherently, by virtue of the close affiliation to the President Moi, and of course the Law Enforcement and Intelligence for the District.

I am sure it is likely you are aware that the death of Ouko generated so much backlash and widespread riots around the country, with the epicenter predictively Kisumu where Ouko was an MP. President Moi faced perhaps the biggest challenge of his presidency with the onset of the Ouko Murder, save for the abortive 1982 coup attempt instigated by some low to middle level military officers, amongst an amalgamation that included some in the academia, as well as activists. Moi was forced to act immediately to appease the mournful and very bitter populace, which perceived the act as an explicit or implicit execution order aimed at throttling down the political threat that Dr. Ouko supposedly posed for Moi. To this end he solicited and was granted assistance from the Scotland Yard, with Detective John Troon and Forensic Pathologist Ian West.

It should be noted that Ouko was not the only person that could be a political threat, as there indeed was the presence of some mavericks in politics to include Kenneth Matiba, Jaramogi Odinga, and Mwai Kibaki after he receded from the helm of power as VP in 1988 et al; in other words Ouko was very brilliant but not the omnipotent conventional beast that engulfed fully the very substance of Moi’s nightmares as many would have it in perception.

OK now down to the items that elevated Jonah Anguka to prime suspect in the murder of
Dr. Ouko; The Minister Of Foreign Affairs and MP of Kisumu town in Moi’s regime.

Back to the role of Susan Anguka working as Personal Assistant to Ouko. As an implied motive the question of an affair, or perceived pair, might potentially have driven Anguka to gravitate towards liquidation of Ouko, but that inference was arrived as a possible motive ex post facto, to explicate the many strange things he did pertaining to Ouko’s murder investigation, and if you see them and are not befuddled, then merry we all in bliss!

Timeline of 12/13 Feb 1990:

It was ultimately established that Ouko died sometime in the early morning hours on 13 Feb 1990.
Selina Were who was Ouko’s house maid indicated that she was startled in the wee hours of 13 Feb 1990 by a noise that sounded kind of like a door being slammed shut(In later recreation of the scene the closest sound she identified with was sound of gunfire but could not decisively rule out a slammed door). And here to detour momentarily from a video I saw of Troon on You Tube he appeared to suggest that somehow Ouko was tricked into getting outside, and of course there were people he knew or who would have let them in through the gates, and into the house to pick up all the stuff they planted to create the suicide tale? Apparently after stepping out he appeared to make that terrific realization of what had just began, and probably tried to flee at this point at which time, there was a feverish scuffle that rendered his angle broken at two points, meaning he must have been scared cold and literally fighting for his life, and apparently per Troon that right there he was shot in the Torso, a wound that would not be expected to be immediately fatal, but ultimately it would if not stemmed. That there might have been plans to get him to Nakuru but with the trajectory that events took, they had to finish up the job real quick so they probably rushed in and took what they could amass, bundled Ouko into the white car, just slightly before Selina was out, having been startled by that initial gunshot she thought was a door. All this time I assumed Ouko was shot once only. Upon stepping out to investigate she spotted a white car towards the Lower Gate that marked the entry to Ouko’s drive way and it turned to the main road and disappeared. There was security lighting so she could clearly see the vehicle but wasn’t quite able to identify the occupants. This was roughly 3 AM. A couple hours earlier Ouko had asked for the keys to the Pedestrian Gates for the compound, as well as the keys to the stores, and was out trying to find a way to keep 500 chicks that were delivered the previous day warm, but was unable to find spare light bulbs to that effect, and the rest of the staff that gave him the keys went to sleep and that was the last time he was seen alive, except of course his executioners.

Jonah Anguka had logged an extra 270KM in the Feb 12/13 time frame, and excess fuel he couldn’t account for. He said that there was an error in recording but the investigators were not buying it because two concatenated errors by perforce are implied, for mileage and fuel consumption, which simply didn’t make much sense.

The Ouko Murder Scene:

Ouko’s death is estimated to have taken place on 13 Feb between 3 and 6AM and potentially slightly later than that. Paul Shikuku a herder spotted Ouko’s body that happened to be on fire around the chest area about 1300. Villagers assumed that it was a known insane man in the area who had committed suicide and no report was made to the authorities. The body was discovered on 16th Feb at the foot of Got Alila Hill, about 2.8KM from Ouko’s Koru home. The body was on its back and appeared to have undergone extensive fire damage to the torso area and with more fire damage on the back than the front, and I would reckon after 3 days some decomposition too, but his facial features still distinctly identified Ouko for those who knew him. Further examination revealed that he had suffered a gunshot wound to the back of the head with the entry point 8 cm above the right ear and an exit wound 6cm above the left ear. It was established that a firearm had been discharged around the are from damage to some branches about 7 feet north of the head. It was estimated by virtue of the blood patterns on the face that the body had been moved about 2 to 3 feet but that he was executed around the place he was found. Reports about a helicopter dropping the body are patently nonsensical as the body would have incurred by perforce major skeletal trauma, and there was no evidence of such. His 38 caliber revolver was next to his right hand on the ground with one round in the chamber, and 4 more rounds would be found in the pockets of Ouko’s leather jacket. The fatal bullet was never discovered but forensic testing appeared to suggest the damage to skull was more extensive than would typically inflicted bOuko’s revolver so it is suggested he was probably shot and his revolver placed next to him to feign a suicide narrative. One of Ouko’s legs was seriously injured with major breaks in the ankle at the end of the tibia and fistula leg bones, which suggests there was a very desperate and brutally suppressed struggle by Ouko to evade his captors. I don’t think any human being would want to picture themselves in such a scary scenario where you can almost see crystal clear that you are about to be wiped out. A few feet from the body there was a 6 liter diesel jerry can, a flash light, a match box with some unused matches inside, a plastic bag that contained some of Ouko’s clothing and gumboots neatly stacked close by, all of which were Ouko’s own belongings, to the exclusion of the Jerry Can with diesel. It was estimated that Ouko was shot in a sitting or kneeling position, and detective Troon seemed at some point have described a trajectory that was consistent with being shot in the standing position to explain the damage to the nearby branches(In other words reading reports on the scene Detective Troon described a standing position to account for trajectory, but in a You Tube video where he recreates the scene it is done in a kneeling position so I’m not sure which version is correct; either way fatal. Cause of death predictably was irreversible brain damage aggravated by (after death probably) fire damage of predominantly the torso area. The killing was emphatically ruled a homicide, though some did and still purvey the suicide tale, which would perhaps be so fantastic that only Tom and Jerry scripts could conjure such .

Early Feb 13 1990:

Anguka’s driver arrived to pick him up for work at 7 in the morning, and for one of the extraordinarily rare circumstances of tardiness, Anguka slept through, and set off to work at 9AM. Additionally
AP Police Officers who provided security saw him arrive at 5AM. He was later to testify, and had been trying to swing the AP Policemen to lie for him, that he had been home all night daily in the week leading to Ouko’s murder, so clearly there is a deception here and why would that be the case? What was he doing in the early hours of 13th Feb that had him home at 5AM….with almost 300KM covered that are inexplicable? This particular point is one of the most crucial in the Ouko murder timeline as I am sure the reader will acknowledge.

Anguka went to Ouko’s Koru home on 15 Feb 90 and could not explain what in fact took him there, and next day 16 Feb when Ouko’s body was discovered he was in Koru in under 2 hours at the murder site. Happenstance? Maybe, or let’s say photographic recollection of steps taken prior days. As a matter of fact, he was present at Ouko’s home in Koru, to receive a call placed from his wife, as Ouko’s Personal Assistant, to inform the household Ouko’s body had been found. He got the juggling skills been to the murder scene, even at Ouko’s house as the information is relayed there etc. The Officer who was in charge of the investigation was aware and had pulled Mrs. Ouko to the side, so he could go and discretely deliver the bad news. Anguka had just been on the phone with the wife so he stormed into the room where Mrs. Ouko was, and without any sense of tactic or sensitivity, and an aura of the callous, told Mrs. Ouko straight to her face they had found Ouko’s body and she fainted in grief, and the other officers in the room were very furious at Anguka for the recklessness he exhibited to a bereaved family and he was scolded accordingly. That is what we call gratuitous malice, completely uncalled for. He is clearly projecting his disdain for Ouko to the family, perhaps without even realizing it. Now of course in the book Absolute Power, there is a very massaged, if spun tone to it, so marvelously as only a contortionist could, to create the impression of how close he was to Ouko and that Ouko always stopped by his office or residence in Nakurw when he passed there, and needless to say, dead men tell no tales. Notice that he had gone to Koru on the 15th Feb and soon after discovery of Ouko’s body 16 Feb he was quickly right there in the Koru home, and for what purpose? As Nakuru DC what is he doing lingering in the Koru area which is in Kisumu, and that brotherly affection between Ouko and Anguka, appeared to be an asymmetrical construct conjured in his head, since he wasn’t what one would close to Ouko. Driving the foregoing assertion home is the fact that Ouko was involved in a minor accident with a petroleum tanker between Kisumu and Kericho a couple days before his demise, but got out effectively unscathed though maybe shaken(very strangely that’s around the same area the wife Mrs. Ouko just recently died in a fatal car accident and may she RIP). After this happened, Ouko had many friends and relatives call him or they paid homage to Ouko by visiting, and as such their solidarity with him was demonstrable, but of course conspicuously absent from all these lists was Jonah Anguka himself. So much for brotherly love.

Jonah Anguka was present at the scene where Ouko’s body was discovered, and was a witness to the original examination of the murder scene scene and during the subsequent autopsy at the morgue. I am sure by now you are starting to get the feeling that he is clearly going above and beyond casual curiosity and one might conjecture he might have well been on a reconnaissance mission. Shortly after the discovery of Ouko’s body, Anguka sought and was granted permission to visit Nairobi for some urgent matters he needed to attend to at none other than the Ministry Of Foreign Affairs, and he provided no explanation for this sense of urgency to visit Ouko’s workplace. You know skeletons have this nasty habit of being dispersed in all sorts of manner and you have to be more industrious than a worker bee in keeping up with the tempo of dispersion of the multitude of parts, and to that end Anguka was quite spectacular!

Detective Troon and Forensic Pathologist Ian West of Scotland Yard arrived in Nairobi JKIA on 21 Feb 90, only five days following Ouko’s body being discovered to emphasize the level of sheer tensile strength of the pressure Moi’s government had to grapple with, to account for the untimely demise of a very brilliant and promising figure in Kenyan politics that Ouko had morphed into. None other than Jonah Anguka was present at JKIA Nairobi to receive the team, and in fact just a short while later Jonah Anguka was to introduce the Scotland Yard detectives to Hezekiah Oyugi, the powerful and feared PS in the Ministry of Internal Security, with barrel after barrel of skeleton to behold. He had broad leverage in control of the police force and Intelligence teams, and it has been posited he might have run his own parallel teams in tandem perhaps designed to consign to obscurity some of the less savory misdeeds that the public is best shielded from. As time progressed it seemed to emerge that the activities of Anguka and Oyugi had some harmonic overtones, the appearance that at some level of resonance emanated from the two in the elaborate task of obfuscation and misinformation that dominated the investigation process. So in what capacity was Jonah Anguka acting in being at JKIA to receive the Scotland Yard team? Clearly there is not a justification officially or otherwise, than the sheer will of Anguka to be not less than 2 heartbeats behind the investigative team, and the implications are hardly the stuff of meritorious deeds, but rather more likely misanthropic manipulation to create foggy clouds over the begging question that persists to this day for want of an authoritative answer, as to

Who killed Ouko and why.

Jonah Anguka shoved a certain hard working gentleman who had been specifically assigned to the task, to the side, imposing himself as the very translator when Selina Were was being interviewed, for she only spoke Luo which the detectives didn’t understand and vice-versa for English. This is a very key point because in theory Selina came as close to being an eye witness as it gets, and indeed she was in a peripheral sense, to the abduction of Ouko, for subsequent execution, as were Ouko temporarily before himself being mercilessly shanghaied from his earthly existence to the celestial realm, and of course the abductors cum executioners themselves. What business did Jonah Anguka have appointing himself as translator for his very key witness Selina? Short of reconnoitering, I shudder in despair to conceive a plausible justification.

Remarkably when the floodlights of the investigative process were trained on Anguka, he summoned the relevant AP Policemen responsible for his security and coerced them to testify that Jonah Anguka was at home during the course of all the evenings in the week that culminated in Ouko’s disappearance or rather death. This is despite the fact that the AP officers had already issued their testimonies previously to the effect that Anguka arrived home at 5AM the morning on 13th Feb 90, a timeline that appears to be fairly consistent with his presence much closer to the activities that transpired in the wee hours of Feb 13th culminating in Ouko’s death, if not in the very thick of Ouko’s demise.

Jonah Anguka was present with Detective Troon during a search of Ouko’s safe to retrieve dossiers he might have been working on.

The investigators running the investigation made explicit complaints of interference from Anguka to the extent Oyugi had to shut him up and consign him back to what must have been huge backlog of work in Nakuru given all the time that he had spent not doing his work but rather chasing the Ouko case.

Detective Troon had the Forensic Pathologist Ian West carry out a second autopsy, and needless to say, Jonah Anguka was right at the fore to witness it, and this in addition to have been present at the initial forensic examination of the Ouko murder scene, and the initial autopsy of Ouko. At right about this juncture one can’t help but ascribe omniscience to the already fertile extent of Anguka’s omnipresence in the investigative process. Now one may venture that all this curiosity displayed by Anguka was perhaps for the greater good, and perhaps it was precisely so, granting camouflage as that good; no more no less.

Detective Troon made the observation that within the first 48 hours seemed to be punctuated by Anguka’s presence. Funny enough Detective Troon actually had made almost nil reference to Anguka save for a perfunctory entry to explain a specific slide that didn’t directly deal with Anguka anyway. It was when he had delivered his Final Report towards the end of 1991 that the visual acuity of hindsight had him leave the name Anguka as a person of significant interest to be further investigated. And indeed not long afterwards, Anguka would find himself charged with Ouko’s murder two times, the only person to be officially charged with Ouko’s murder twice; the first case was invalidated after the presiding judge passed away, whereas the second trial resulted in Anguka’s acquittal.

At this juncture I seek a momentary repose to reflect on what happened if in the briefest sense. Mr. Jonah Anguka invited himself to the Ouko murder case and prescient due diligence was observed to hold him accountable, albeit unsuccessfully.

Jonah Anguka thereafter sought successfully asylum to the US for fear of his life, and started priming the cogwheels of what was supposed to be Anguka’s version of the Ouko Murder Mystery-Absolute Power.

Absolute Power By Jonah Anguka published circa 1998:

This book made for a very interesting and intriguing agglomeration of Anguka’s experiences pertaining to the mysterious Ouko Murder. Tersely, it purveys the perilous quagmires of this hapless law abiding citizen, in the face of unprecedented oppression by state, who gets fed to the cruel hands of fate as the sacrificial lamb, in a drama filled saga. In the book, whilst amplifying his philanthropy anywhere possible, remains absolutely silent, even lethargic, on his misanthropies, the latter being construed as an oxymoron to his very essence.

He portrays himself as a very dear friend of the Oukos. Two anti-theses counter to that are being anywhere close to checking on Ouko’s well-being following the minor accident he had shortly before his death…whilst his families and friends called or visited Ouko, including the sister Dorothy Randiak who visited Ouko at his place for that very reason merely hours before his untimely demise. Secondly is how he broke the news of Ouko’s death to Mrs. Ouko. This was very telling of how he really felt about the Ouko’s with the sheer insensitivity he demonstrated delivering the devastating news to the effect thatOuko’s wife instantly fainted out of sheer grief. He was not on any of the guest lists for the many guests the Ouko’s hosted at their house, as they so did with regularity.

In a nutshell, Anguka is sufficiently present in all the on-goings pertaining to the Ouko investigation to wield virtually eye witness caliber of authority in his testimony, while distancing himself sufficiently, to be just beyond the reach of “culpability” in all the malice that had occurred. For example, you will instantly notice that thanks to the magnificence of his ubiquitous presence for all the instances as itemized previously, that magnificence can then not be polluted with such malodorous acts as contrivance, collusion, or direct execution; deplorable activities that can be levelled at all but Anguka. After all, do not we love eating as well as having our cakes concurrently?

There is absolutely no deficiency of very telling bouts of silence or rather dissociation through omission which does not seamlessly segue to dissociation by commission, which if it indeed held strictly so, the latter would definitely absolve him of culpability. Of course that test was failed miserably. For example in his book he proceeds to state that on 21 Feb, the team from Scotland arrived. There is no mention of him being at the Airport to receive Troon and West, or of him introducing Detective Troon and Forensic Pathologist Dr. Ian West to Hezekiah Oyugi. There is absolutely no mention of his presence at any of the autopsies and some of the many mysterious appearances he made. He tries level hard to dissociate himself with Hezekiah Oyugi, and does not indicate the professional or private relationship with Hezekiah Oyugi, yet at many levels the activities of Anguka and Oyugi were often construed as being in synchronized cadence, with Oyugi the dominant of the duo by virtue of rank. Granted the truly unhygienic nature of anything that wrecks of Oyugi, and that appears to be cultivated in his sphere of presence pursuant to Ouko’s murder. It is no small wonder that association with such an entity is inherently deleterious to Anguka’s image, and use of those subtractive techniques cultivates the perception of an infallible, if dedicated and humble, citizen trying to do the right thing at all times, and indeed the apparition begotten resultant from this concoction was too good to be true, and as such it persisted and all but certainly always will.

Ultimately the books seems to be be “an unrepentant apology” of Anguka’s actions which shouted much louder than the actual utterances about situations, in the tenuous realm of omission, and for anyone in the investigative fields oft is the case that omission screams louder than commission.

The Inescapable Conclusion:

Jonah Anguka may be given various labels, but one incontrovertible truth, in light of his actions, his words, and perhaps even more so, his omissions, is that Jonah Anguka was no innocent bystander in the demise of Ouko. There is a continuum of probabilities for his role between collusion, contrivance, and explicit execution…with high probability of concatenation of at least two of those factors as the lowest conceivable threshold, and the conclusion is scarcely escapable.

The following is a more condensed version of the narrative. The first one was being directly typed minus edits and contextualization:

Kenyans continue to remain perplexed by the Ouko murder mystery in large measure as a result of the dogmatic attribution to a Moi and Biwott conspiracy, while ignoring Ouko’s real life and death problems much closer to his own Nyanza province. Jonah Anguka is perceived as the sacrificial lamb or patsy, and looked upon as a scape goat in an elaborate conspiracy with Moi and Biwott in the drivers seat. 3 reasons quickly bring into question this assessment as you shall see:

Kisumu Molasses Plant Fiasco: That Biwott was implicated in a corrupt scheme to extract kickbacks on the project and actively blocked Ouko’s progress on the project in retribution for failed kickbacks. This has been established to be total nonsense. Evidence here is almost entirely from Marianne Briner-Mattern and Domenico Airaghi, and their BAK group. It turns out Airaghi was a fugitive conman wanted in Milan at the time, Marianne Briner a pathological liar and self-proclaimed slut to climb, and BAK group a phony chimera. It was further established Detective Troon did not read the Molasses File, which detailed the project, before submission of his final reaport, and instead relied on the “good faith” of Marianne and Airaghi. These were fraudsters and the whole fiasco a heap of rubbish.
Washington Trip Row: This is a strong favorite of many manufactured by Ouko’s estranged Brother Barrack Mbajah, who along with the guy he partnered in peddling the story, was not on the trip. It was suggested Ouko so impressed the Westerners, that Bush met Ouko privately much to the chagrin of Biwott, and that the Western Leaders were strongly gunning for Ouko as a preferable Kenyan leader. This Biwott-Ouko feud was also proven to be a myth, and especially after the public release of the detailed Bush era White House diaries of all Bush activities in 2003, that positively verified there wasn’t any meeting between Ouko and Bush. With no Biwot-Ouko feud over the trip where is the urgency to wipe out Ouko merely a week after the Washington trip?
That Ouko was the most potent political threat to the Moi regime. Kenyans pour a mist of cloud over their faces to forget the obvious presence of at least 3 principals, Jaramogi Odinga, Mwai Kibaki, and Kenneth Matiba, two of which had occupied the VP spot in Kenya, and clearly more polished politicians than Ouko, but all 3 were still breathing at the conclusion of Kenya’s first Multiparty era elections in 1992. So If Ouko wasn’t such an imminent political threat, then why the urgency to execute him?

Additionally, if Ouko was going to prepare a dossier for high level graft, would he be so naive as to implicate the likes of Biwott, given the presumed close relationship between Biwott and Moi, and what from Ouko did Moi himself really fear? Ouko’s real threats were much closer to his own Nyanza province and his killers predominantly from his own home front of Nyanza. Barrack Mbajah, Ouko’s estranged brother, Jonah Anguka the then Nakuru DC, and Hezekiah Oyugi the feared PS of Ministry of Internal Security were key persons of interest. Barrack Mbajah was some Deputy DC or the likes in about 1986, and had his eyes set on the PC office, but got transferred to the Attorney Generals Office, a move he greatly opposed, and engaged Ouko, his brother who was then Minister of Industry to help reverse his move, but that did not happen, because supposedly Barrack concluded that Ouko had his own eyes on that PC seat and therefore failed to help him, and a dangerous feud was instantiated that lasted to Ouko’s death. In fact Mrs. Ouko had to make a plea through her sister-in-law, Barrack’s wife to have a talk with the husband, to stop speaking evil of Ouko during his funeral proceedings. Barrack won over his brother Collins in the feud, and it was a serious affair, with Collins at some point threatening to reduce the mom to pieces as she was perceived to be on Ouko’s side. Barrack in fact industriously campaigned against his brother Ouko in the 1988 elections for the Kisumu MP seat, for Joab Omino, Ouko’s great political opponent, and Ouko tenuously won the seat with less than a 2000 count election victory. Jonah Anguka was Nakuru DC from mid 1980s to early 1990s, and his wife Susan Anguka, was then personal Assistant to the Foreign Affairs Minister Dr. Robert Ouko. One can quickly see how this status quo could quickly turn deadly for a real or perceived affair between Ouko and Mrs. Anguka. Jonah Anguka literally invited himself to the very altar of the Ouko murder investigation, so much so that he in fact forced the investigation team to pursue him, and assign the plausible motive of a love triangle between Jonah, Ouko, and Mrs. Anguka. Jonah Anguka was present, inexplicably, at all the following events related to the Ouko murder mystery. At what point did John Anguka stop being Nakuru’s DC and instead became an investigator?

Ouko had a minor car accident between Kericho and Kisumu few days before his demise, and many friends and relatives called or visited him in solidarity, and as such a good friend and neighbor of Ouko, Jonah Anguka was conspicuously absent from any of these lists. So much for brotherly love, plus the dead after all don’t tell any tales.
Anguka had covered 270KM and excess fuel that he could not account for during the 1990 Feb 12/13 time frame, and on the morning Ouko died, 13 Feb 1990, he arrived at his home at 5AM, was two hours late for duty to arrive at 9AM, a very rare occurrence in Anguka’s career, and tried to coerce the AP Officers assigned for his security to lie that he had been home all night in all the evenings in the week leading up to Ouko’s death, this despite his arrival at 5AM on 13th Feb, the morning Ouko died. >He was in Koru area close to Ouko’s home on 15th Feb, one day before Ouko’s body was discovered with no good explanation. >He was at the Ouko murder scene on 16th Feb, at the foot of Got Alila 2.8 KM from Ouko’s Koru home within 2 hours of Ouko’s body’s discovery. Ouko’s body was said to have undergone significant fire damage to the torso area, more so on the back than the front, but that the face, not much affected by the flames, distinctly identified the body as that of Dr. Robert Ouko for those who knew him.
He was present at Ouko’s Koru home to receive and relay ever so insensitively the news of Ouko’s demise to Mrs. Ouko, she immediately fainted in grief and was scolded by furious officers that witnessed the event, for such recklessness, and really a blatant projection of his true feelings for Ouko.
At what point did it become Jonah Anguka’s prerogative as Nakuru’s DC to call Mr. Oyugi, the Internal Security PS, to inform him of Ouko’s demise?
He was present for the initial examination of Ouko’s murder site by the government Pathologist at the Murder scene.
Was present for Ouko’s first autopsy by the government pathologist,
Was at JKIA on 21 Feb for the arrival of the Scotland Yard team, that included Detective John Troon and Forensic Pathologist Ian West.
He introduced the Scotland Yard team to Hezekiah Oyugi then the feared PS for the Ministry of Internal Security. >He was present during Ouko’s second autopsy performed by Dr. Ian West. >He was present with Detective Troon during the search of Ouko’s safe to retrieve some files pertaining to a dossier Ouko may have been working with at the time of his death.
Shortly after Ouko’s death Anguka made an impromptu request for an urgent matter to follow up on in Nairobi, at none other than the offices of Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ouko’s place of work, with no sensible explanation for that.
He shoved to the side a hard working man assigned the specific job of acting as interpreter, and planted himself as Selina Were’s interpreter during her interview on the Ouko Murder Mystery. Selina Were was the maid to the Ouko family and took care of the house when the Ouko’s were on travel, and she was the one person who witnessed most closely the abduction of Ouko from his Koru home, with her official testimony limited to seeing the Minister spirited off his Koru compound in a white car, whose occupants she couldn’t identify. Odds are she certainly saw much more than she revealed, and indeed during a wiretap, she detailed to someone she trusted that she pinned Ouko’s murder on his estranged brother Barrack and proceeded to name the working group formed to execute that gory mission, that unsurprisingly included; Barrack himself, Jonah Anguka, Hezekiah Oyugi(generally a faithless opportunist with the power to facilitate great malfeasance), Joab Omino, amongst others. Someone likely had a chat with her on what to never reveal, and she probably complied in a very absolute way, after all, if her boss, a whole Cabinet Minister and an MP was dispatched with impunity like a dog, what of a defiant her? Of course she denied all of this in her formal interviews for very good reason.
The Ouko murder investigation team made explicit complaints of interference by Jonah Anguka, that Oyugi had to shut him up and order him back to his Nakuru DC duties. Political Assassinations: Usually for one reason or the other the incumbent government tends to get charged with the task of cover up after high profile murder cases, and this for various reasons, often leading the masses to conclude that the government was necessarily involved in the very execution, though of course that is not always the case, and this may well have happened in the Ouko case. Conclusion: At the end of the day, if you have carefully went through the foregoing, and with the 3 key myths largely debunked, really Ouko’s murder does not after all remain all that mysterious. Ouko was probably eliminated by people closer to his own home ground, followed by a wide ranging government cover up. So to you enlightened wananchi what direction would you really say, common sense dictates, is more consistent with reality?
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sodamadiaba · September 11, 2017, 3:58am

Det. John Troon posed a very simple question. WOULD A GOVT. MINISTER BE KILLED WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE PRESIDENT ? In an era where information was tightly controlled and preying eyes everywhere, the death of a cabinet minister had to be sanctioned & blessed by higher-ups ! Do not forget that fish rots from the head down to the rest of its body.
Clearly Mr. Anguka was a small pawn in a much larger game of chess.

Dimz_Fala · September 11, 2017, 3:20pm

For whatever reason whenever I issue counter arguments to postulations some take it to be a self-reinforcing unidirectional imposition of my point of view with pronounced dogma, instead of carefully reading what is actually being said…and I always yearn for counternarratives just as verbose.
I will submit that yes indeed Ouko may have been taken out via executive order no disputes on the plausibility but more so on the actual probability…And the public has been convinced of that so many times it has almost become doctrine yet repitition will never turn a falsehood into a truism…Mine was to point out some information that was not clear in the public perspective…We would have to come forth with a good motive to explain such an order from Moi/Biwott level…It should be noted hereafter a couple of anecdotes …during the return trip from Washington, Ouko did comment in his journal of how glad he was that the Washington Trip had been so successful, and that the standings of Moi had increased dramatically after the trip, when they finally put a face to tales of a dictator with unquestionable authority…Additionally at about the time Ouko disappeared there was correspondence with Biwott then the Energy Minister in a professional if friendly tone…Ouko had spoken to Biwott about his son’s employment and Biwott was making arrrangements to set up a position for Ouko’s son upon graduation…Now if they were truly such dangerous enemies would such talk ever come up in earnest?..Biwott was a very vindictive character and I doubt he did much in the way of hiding it…It is exceedingly infinitesimal the chance he would be discussing sibling employment if such bad blood divided them…I would submit the poroposition that if 1. The true nature of Marianne and Airaghi were highlighted from the onset there would be no tale on the Molasses Saga(If you read through the detailed transcripts of the Molasses file you will be surprised just how far from reality accusations of Biwott were on this topic)…2. The manufactured Washington Row probably more than any other factor was considered to be the key to the holy grail and if that former invention by Barrack was dismissed early on and the latter by Barrack…I seriously doubt the investigation would have fall so much off course…It is also noteworthy that entities like Jonah Anguka were scarcely touched on before Troon’s 1991 Final Report, but with the benefit of hind sight’s precision he did leave Anguka as a party to be further investigated-his actions damned him and that is how Anguka came into the limelight…There was no prior “plot” to crucify Anguka from the onset; Anguka did it on his own and only started being investigated in 1992…Granted Detective Troon’s failure to effectively follow up on the family row angle left a lot to be desired, especially with the revalation over time of just how potentially apocalyptic the row might have proven. Even if we moved to propose that Ouko was working on a dossier to implicate very highly placed people in the Moi regime, would he be so naive as to the way things operated in Kenya then, that he would go and rub directly on elements very deeply planted inside Moi’s private cirle and expect any positive outcome, or risk rubbing against Moi hismself through allusion very inimically? And if we suppose Biwott was implicated by abundance of evidence against him, what such fear then would Moi have of Ouko? Now that the key motives the public relied on that I detailed are more or less debunked. …what would the motive be in light of all the information received then?..now if a coherent and detailed motive is adduced that is irrefutable it might well change the outlook and I would be very glad to hear it. …There is also the propensity to invoke the necessity of a larger conspiracy when such high profile murders occur, which though often so, this is not always the case…In Ouko’s case indubitable is the fact that overall Moi’s poltiical competition was somewhat toned down…this doesn’t automatically suggest original culpability but rather in some cases the beneficent effects may provide plenty an incentive to shield from exposure the truth…but the presence of the other 3 principals dials back the explicit necessity to out Ouko . I believe the tunnel vision in thought and fixation on Moi/Biwott is the one factor that explains why the mysteriousness of Ouko’s death ever grows with time…
I am not too sure if my memory serves me right and I will revisit it…but I remember something to the effect that Kenyatta did really like JM Kariuki and that his assassination and dumping (was it in the Ngong Forest?)was a function his inner circle, and he acquiesced if not helped to paint a cloud to constrain the case ex post facto to the realm of the mystique, despite likely having played NO role in JMs death; JMs elimination purged a festering thorn on his side with scarce input from him … One got the sense Kenyatta loved JM not unlike a Dad would a nonetheless spoilt kid, this as JM was portrayed as challenging his authority at every turn, but Kenyatta always downplayed the “danger” he posed. …Of course others will always hold Kenyatta was directly responsible through executive order, because JM’s high profile assassination begs for a convoluted conspiracy to be vindicated consistent with precedence from other similar assasinations, though scant if vacant proof appears forthcoming for this supposition contextually. Ouko’s murder may well be analogous to that script.

Dimz_Fala · September 11, 2017, 7:20pm

I guess for your sake I will always write a 2 sentence summary at the top for your consumption. You read 10 paragraphs and discerned nothing? I was able to observe just about a handful of people actually followed and coherently responded; at least you now know where to come for soporific shots when bouts of insomnia strike.

Dimz_Fala · September 11, 2017, 7:24pm

The more detailed answer is the other one I typed. For parallels go read JM Kariuki tale very closely. There are fundamental similarities.

Dimz_Fala · September 11, 2017, 7:28pm

That is the summary…the full version will incorrigibly derange your eye sockets…

Dimz_Fala · September 11, 2017, 7:29pm

Nobody

Nobody asked you to read anything.

Dimz_Fala · September 11, 2017, 7:33pm

I was scrubbing through the thread history and this is the one with the most useless answers. So I will make a mental note of 1776 as a declaration of independence from consideration.

Dimz_Fala · September 11, 2017, 7:36pm

That might do very well for eugenics.

1776 · September 11, 2017, 7:54pm

you’re still here??:mad:

Dimz_Fala · September 23, 2017, 7:52am

@sodamadiaba Not sure whether or not I had pointed this out, and also to preclude the need to flip back and forth, I will just lay it down .
There is a circularity in the argument: Ouko is a cabinet Minister>He gets Murdered>Only the top fish can authorize such a high profile “assassination” in the prevailing political environment then>Therefore, an executive order is at the minimum implied, which sounds like a self-fulfilling prophecy to me QED. Actually this is part of something I was typing, the new Bush-Ouko meeting “evidence”. Detective Troon did a good job with the case in unveiling some of the fuzzed up , but simultaneously fumbled on basic due diligence expected of a top detective. Absolute attention was given to the Washington Trip and Kisumu Molasses; never mind, these factored heavily in Detective Troon’s conclusions on the motive for Ouko 's murder, that would almost certainly not have been reached, if those two key issues were properly scrutinized. For Kisumu Molasses plant, of course proved to be absolute nonsense ultimately…very explicitly implicated Biwott directly, when he had no relevance at all, and this blunder was caused by failure to read the Molasses File before issuance of the Final Report, but instead took Marianne and Airaghi’s tale as true for no good reason at all, other than they sounded like good and honest folks! Bypassing Barrack Mbajah’s effect importance went along similar lines. For the Washington trip, the secret Bush-Ouko meeting, initiated by none other than Ouko’s mortal enemy, Barrack Mbajah, started this tale, which was termed as the last nail Ouko’s coffin. Of course Bush’s White House diary, which recorded all Bush’s activities was revisited, and the meeting was entirely absent. And officials on the trip were interviewed and none was privy of an Ouko Biwott feud, unless some supranational phenomenon invited collective amnesia, and had taken hold; being tantamount to, a reductio ad absurdum for the surmise. After this tale was crushed, yet another emerged to “legitimize the Biwott Ouko feud”, and that was the “secret/off the books meeting with Bush”; that in fact Bush had met with Ouko, including a conveniently undated photograph of Bush and Ouko greeting at his residential doorstep. Check this out , the SECRET, and OFF-the-books meeting starts off with a photo op between the two, and especially if Ouko had noticed the photo op individual taking the shots, and failed to forbid them from taking the pics, that would be what we call "extreme stupidity"or “infinite narcissism”…First assumption for him MUST be it will leak, and the rest you can fill in the blanks. Next, so the photo was archived somewhere by government officials, and about an year after Ouko’s death, it was given to US Ambassador to hand to Ouko (only to hear the shocking truth that Ouko was dead!!!), so it was given to Mrs. Ouko , who in turn gave it to their lawyer for safekeeping. This “clueles” card is a very serious reason to question the veracity of that tale. Ouko died a week after the trip, and it was international News, and the “Bush Meeting” fever was flowing far and near as a strong motive. US diplomatic missions are a key branch of US Espionage; it’s practically impossible US top diplomatic and key officials were in the dark. Washington’s stance was to explicitly DENY any meeting had taken place. If their intention was to let the meeting story to slide under undetected, how do they proceed to deliver the evidence in form of the Ouko-Bush photo (are we implicitly accusing Bush of setting up his good friend Ouko??), and that was given to none other than the victim’s own family; Mrs. Ouko. Of course even now the photo has not been forensically authenticated to eliminate forgery as a factor , and the very LACK of a time stamp is in and by of itself a potential knockout for that as proof of anything that happened DURING the trip. Back to the JM case again. Did Jomo Kenyatta know about JM murder plot in advance? evidence is that its most likely the case he didn’t know in advance, and Kenyatta himself used to downplay JM’s boisterous bashing of Kenyatta, but his inner circle did it to protect their "Post-Kenyatta ambitions coz they knew his end was near; he started fainting, getting incoherent midway through meetings etc, and you would notice he went a lot to Mombasa, probably to minimize strain on him.Besides that, I believe Kenyatta himself knew that his end was near, so JM likely would be irrelevant to him anyway, unless we are to hyper extend our imagination and assume it was a measure to protect the ill-gotten wealth the Kenyatta’s had come into, which was legal de jure; whilst being contrary to the de facto opinion, meaning it was legal by the books but a scam against wananchi settlements, and thereafter, many of them slipped into destitution, including former Mau Mau who fought hard, and had worked in cohort to secure Kenyatta’s own release from exile(I think Jaramogi cited it a s a precondition before “talks” between the belligerents), but Mau Mau too played no small role , all this to secure Kenyatta’s release, but he gently erased them from his proximity since they would now be competitive liabilities since he was at the helm; but of course a dictator can’t let that happen (reminds me of Joseph Stalin, one of the greater psychopaths to grace this world; this guy systematically wiped out , quite literally, all competition, or potential avenues for discord, which scholars were notorious for, and many went down they I think ended up with a “expertise vacuum” after wiping the best out. He used a very nested approach by wiping out many, and, then taking the executors to the purges wiped out themselves, so no real threat could confront him), therefore Kenyatta had his top security and other very close entities removed from the report. I wonder what Troon would have to say about that. Another cardinal blunder by Detective Troon was FAILURE to pursue the family row, by far the most volatile and biggest threat to Ouko (you know its deadly and serious when someone threatens to cut to pieces their own mum, as Collins, who was a brother, did!!!) , much more so than the top fish. So at the end of the day there might after all have been an Ouko-Biwott Feud and implicit executive order, or NOT. It is impossible for me to disregard that possibility, only that the probability is rather microscopic. New arguments should be given to support that notion, granted prior arguments had been nullified. The latest emerging information appeared to suggest that Ouko’s murder plot was began way before the trip, through reshuffling of top government posts in Ouko’s area to rid it of the “loyal ones”…but this is the same story that then proceeds to suggest Ouko was banished and security pulled from him; a pure lie. Ouko was given time off(that is the “cover story” to wananchi as evidence Ouko was being set up), even though Ouko himself gave the driver and bodyguards off, to rendezvous with him 13th, the day he died. It is also very likely whatever issues that might have existed between Ouko and Biwott/Moi, they would have started, almost almost by perforce, after the 1988 elections, simply because Ouko would not have been landed the Foreign Affairs slot. Moi, we all know, may have been a different entity, depending on who was speaking, but there is right about consensus, that Moi was a very skilled politician in a Real Politik sense. He wouldn’t, if Ouko to him was so potent a threat, make him Minister of Foreign Affairs; one of, if not the most prestigious ministries, but he did. As you can see, the tale appears to be revised to match new evidence, or refute prior accounts; pretty much “doctored” ex post facto. If indeed Ouko had a nasty fall out with Biwott, would he have gone to the comfort of his house in Koru, while pushing aside his security, at a time when, more than any other he desperately need them. His activities on the night he disappeared , such as tending to the chicken, appeared to be consistent with longevity, with exception of him changing into a kitenge late at night, when people typically go sleep, and carrying around his revolver, assuming it was not habitual. It appeared as though he expected someone. It would be strange for me to carry my gun moving about my own compound. I suspect he would have been quite apprehensive about a visit in the middle of the night. In fact if those were the circumstances, it would have been wise to in fact not be at home for the visit knowing all but certainly something untoward was on the verge of confounding him.
I will put a variant of this in a different conversation later in the day.

sodamadiaba · September 23, 2017, 11:26am

stop @ me.
I unfollwed this thread.
Ok.
Bye.