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General Otaffire was quoted in the media urging the police to find out whether Ms Draru acted with others in murdering General Kazini.
In high profile murder cases, shit happens. Let me take cover in Kenyan example. I have heard some journalists on the UAH forum say that political murders do not take place in Uganda. That Ugandan leader do not murder their opponents. Well in Kenya, political murders happened but not anymore under Mr Kibaki.
The best case is one about the late Dr Robert Ouko. Dr Ouko was murdered on the orders of Mr Nicholas Biwott apparently on the night he was on his way to Uganda to begin his exile. Mr Biwott was then Moi’s most trusted minister who ran the Kalenjin mafia. Hell broke literally. However, in Kenya unlike Uganda such suspicious deaths are probed, so Mr Moi set up a Judicial Commision of Inquiry -their current Chief Justice was a member-but on the eve of what Mr Moi felt could deliver a bombshell, he dissolved the Commission of Inquiry.
To cut to the issue relevant to Ms Draru, under pressure, Mr Moi arrested Minister Biwott and put him in police custody. That was a real shock. He also ordered the once fomer PS of internal Security, Mr Hezekiah Oyugi, from South Nyanza who is believed to have worked with Biwottt to kill Dr Ouko arrested. The then Nyanza PC Mr Kobia was dismiised.
Now things took a turn for the worse. Mr Biwott left prison. But all the suspects including Mr Oyugi, Mr Kilonzo who was the Police Commissioner at the time, Mr Kobia the former PC and other suspects or those who knew something about Dr Ouko’s death all died under mysterious circumstances. Was it a mere coincidence? You read between the lines.
Being Vice President in Africa is not easy. This story may shock some of you, but it is apparently true.
Again, Kenya-where else- in the early 80s. The kalenjin mafia had come up with a plot to blow up then VP, Mr Mwai Kibaki, on a plane while on official visit.
Mr Kibaki’s allies in the intelligence system got wind of the plot which had all but been finalized. So the then Director of intelligence, Mr Kanyotu, a Kikuyu from Kirinyanga and Mr Shaw, a muzungu police reservist who also taught at Starehe centre and others swung into action.
The next day Mr Kibaki was to travel abroad. But if he boarded that plane that would be it. He would be blown up.
So his allies wrestled with the big question: how to stop their man from boarding that plane without alerting the plotters that they had become aware of the plot? Something drastic had to be done in the middle of the night.
Mr Kibaki’s father, Mzee Githinji, had to die to save his son. So in the wee hours, he was murdered because that was the only way to stop Mr Kibakii from boarding that plane and be blown up by the Kalenjin mafia.
To fool the mafia, Mr Kibaki showed up at the airport ready to board that early morning flight for his overseas trip. The mafia were salivating and almost celebrating that their plot was about to work.
Then all of a sudden, Mr Kibaki was pulled aside by among others Mr Shaw-this Shaw used to shoot to kill thieves in Nairobi-and told that his father had died. His convoy pulled away and that particular plane flight was aborted.
Hard to believe, the death and cancellation of trip happened. His father was murdered in the wee hours when he was about to make an official trip abroad.
The political murders in Kenya caused political instability big time. They divided the ruling elite. The murders of Mr Tom Mboya and JM Kariuki in particular shook the Kiambu mafia. The only cabinet minister at the time to attend both funerals was Mr Mwai Kibaki. No other minister could dare attend a) for fear of Kenyatta’s reaction, b) the mourners would have pelted them.
Mr Moi made sure that the entire cabinet went to Kisumu to attend Dr Ouko’s funeral, but protected with a very heavy GSU presence.
It is actually nonsense for some of our fellow UAH members to claim that political murders never happen in Uganda.
About women who kill, the demenour of Ms Dralu is funny. The police is doing a good job letting her look presentable. She is not the monster woman who is the talk of Ugandan everywhere. I bet you some Ugandan men desire her more!
By W.B.KYIJOMANYI via Ugandans At Heart Forum
UAH forumist in New York
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