So Why Did Former Foreign Minister, Robert Ouko Have To Die? Trust Me, You Don't Even Know Half The Truth

If one is not careful, this can be a very boring topic. We are all very tired by now of hearing about molasses plants and a corruption report that the late minister was compiling at the time of his death. But the real reason why Ouko died has been kept from the public domain at great cost to human life (read details in the book A Shining Star in Darkness serialized from today in Kumekucha Confidential) until now.

Those who follow the news carefully and can remember things will be aware of the fact that The Sunguh Select committee mandated with investigating the death of Robert Ouko had several of its' members receive death threats via their mobile phones. This tactic was effective because despite the fact that the committee also sat in London at great expense to the Kenyan tax-payer, this crucial bit of information you are about to read never came out. It was presented to the committee but surprisingly left out of the final report.

The other important point to note is that the characters involved have vast resources at their disposal. The kind of money that you can never imagine, let alone picture. Using this ill-gotten wealth, they are able to hire smart and effective lawyers who will go to great lengths to sue, cajole, pay off and threaten witnesses still alive who may want to reveal the truth. Already we are aware that there are books that have been banned and withdrawn from the market after successful defamation law suits.

Why the real killer of Ouko was Moi.

The Real Killer Of Ouko Was Moi – John Troon

Scotland Yard detective, John Troon clearly told the Sunguh committee that he had evidence to suggest that the order to kill the foreign minister came right from the top. It was an executive order.

But why? How does a man who is well known for his forgiveness and magnanimity turn killer. Indeed most Kenyans believe that Moi was capable of many things but not murder. Even this writer was totally convinced of that one fact because a man called James Mungai, former Assistant commissioner incharge of Rift Valley is still alive today holed up somewhere in the up-market Nyali in Mombasa even after personally assaulting Moi many times when he was VP. The things this man did to Moi in the Kenyatta days, cannot be published even here. But let me say he once had the VP stripped stark naked and searched for alleged "guns that he had come with into the country" after a foreign trip. Many other people on ascending to power would have just had the man shot on site. Not Moi.

Before we go into the details of what turned the Moi presidency into such a bloody affair, let us look at the reason why Ouko had to die. Most Kenyans believe that it is because he was given preferential treatment by the Americans and especially the older George Bush, who shunned Moi and feted Ouko. No matter how angry the President was, this was an easy one to deal with, after all others had tried the same before Ouko. Remember Dr Josephat Karanja Vice President before George Saitoti? Remember Charles Njonjo, once a powerful AG and member of President Kenyatta's kitchen cabinet? All these guys tried to lift a finger against Moi when he was president and lived to tell the story, they were just dealt with politically without having them murdered. Dealing with Ouko would have even been easier because the man WAS NOT a popular politician. In fact it is said that he had been rigged in 1988, in an election where it is widely believed he lost.

And neither was it corruption, because everybody has information on Moi's corrupt practices and they are still very much alive. No there was something more sinister, some dirty secret that Ouko had access to which Moi could not afford having out there in the world.

The facts are all in the declaration by a witness (see this post) but for now let me summarize them quickly. A woman who says she is Moi's former lover and who testified to that effect infront of the Sunguh committee reveals that the bachelor president had some Ugandan women supplied for his physical needs by Nicholas Biwott. The whole stranger-than-fiction saga started when the president stumbled on some information that Biwott was involved in running a highly profitable prostitution ring at the Coast. Moi was naturally very angry but some "samples" were quickly supplied to him "to shut him up." It is because of this terrible secret which the former president could not bear to have come out, that Biwott has had such a hold over Moi all these years. This is the information the witness supplied to Ouko who did his own additional digging and came up with some shocking sleazy details for which he had to die.

Moi wants to protect his image and legacy at all costs and is terrified at such information becoming public. You can read the details for yourself but in a nut shell that is what it is. It is amazing how the truth is usually stranger than fiction.

The other piece of the jigsaw puzzle that in fact puzzled the president's former lover who felt that she knew him well enough to know what he was capable of and what he was not capable of is as follows. Moi changed compeletely as a person after the failed coup of August 1982. On that August 1st Sunday, the former president stared at death right in the face and had in fact said his final prayers. It is said that the army officers who came to collect him and transport him back to Nairobi from his Kabarak farm had to gently slap him out of his stupor as he requested them to kill him there at his farm rather than take him elsewhere.

The man who emerged from that ordeal was ruthless survivor-at-all-costs who went on to win two multi-party elections against stiff competition and at great cost to the people of Kenya. Former Minister in Moi's government Burudi Nabwera is on record as saying that the arrows imported into the country to be used in the Rift Valley clashes to evict Kikuyus, were imported into the country on orders from Moi.
So it is not only Ouko's blood that was spilt, many other Kenyans died so that Moi could remain in power.

I have no doubt that wherever Moi is now, Robert Ouko's murder is the biggest regret of his presidency. It is probably puzzling to him that other political murders of much bigger politicians have been largely forgotten although some of the killers are still alive and well in Kenya today. These are assassinations like that of JM Kariuki and Tom Mboya.

I volunteer to give the answer. In those other assassinations, the persons killed were real political giants, capable of fighting back and amassing support to bring down the government. They were real threats. Ouko on the other hand was a nobody, politically. Ouko's blood was therefore innocent blood and he was completely unable to fight back politically or defend himself in any other way. That is why I firmly believe that Ouko's killers will face justice first although there were earlier assassinations.

I don't know if you believe in God but this blogger knows that when the innocent and defenseless are touched, the Almighty God himself steps in, and it may look like it is taking a long time, but finally justice will be done. This Bible verse comes to mind;

Then the Lord said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" He said, "I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?"
And He said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries out to Me from the ground…"
Genesis 4:9-10

I am sure that the voice of Robert Ouko's blood has been crying out to God from the ground for 16 years now.

Somebody threatened the Sunguh committee, so they left out this evidence.