Biwott faces TJRC in camera

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Former Cabinet minister Nicholas Biwott 

By PETER NG’ETICH pngetich@ke.nationmedia.com
Posted  Thursday, March 29  2012 at  22:00

IN SUMMARY

• Former Cabinet minister avoids journalists for over an hour before leaving NHIF building secretly

Former Cabinet minister Nicholas Biwott who was largely accused of being behind the killing of former Foreign Affairs minister Robert Ouko appeared before the truth commission on Thursday.

Mr Biwott is reported to have entered into the Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission offices at National Hospital Insurance Fund offices in Upper Hill, Nairobi, secretly at around 9am and testified in camera.

Mr Biwott hid in the commission’s offices for about one and a half hours in a bid to escape journalists.

Commissioner Margaret Shava told journalist in the evening that they had sittings since morning but only mentioned former Naivasha MP Jane Kihara and former Office of the President secretary Elizabeth Kegode as the witnesses who appeared before them.

Following the death of Mr Ouko, key witness have died mysteriously over the years, among them Mr Mohammed Aslam, the chairman of Pan African Group of Companies.

Mr Aslam had featured in allegations made before the commission of inquiry but, before he could testify, he was admitted to the Nairobi Hospital, where he died two days later.

High Court judge Fidahussein Abdullah died in 1992 before he could deliver judgment in a case in which former Nakuru DC Jonah Anguka had been charged with the murder of Dr Ouko.

The other was Mr Oidho Agalo, son of Zablon Agalo Obonyo, the Administration Police guard who was attached to Dr Ouko’s Koru home.

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Oidho was a farmhand at Dr Ouko’s farm, where he lived with his father. He died quietly at Nyalenda Estate in Kisumu, and with his death possible vital information on the Ouko murder mystery was lost. There were no explanations as to the cause of his death.

Mr Otieno Gor was among the people who saw the minister just hours before he disappeared, and he also died mysteriously.

Mr Martin Ochanda, a friend of Dr Ouko, was attached to the Kisumu Special Branch office.

After Ouko’s death, Ochanda was transferred to Nairobi. In December 1991, he became sick and was admitted to the Armed Forces Hospital in Nairobi, where he died a few days later.

Pius Omollo Ngwaye was Jonah Anguka’s personal bodyguard for nearly five years. He died in Nakuru.