This is the story of how retired police chief Philip Kilonzo was killed Mafia-style with a mug of Beer
Shocking and chilling!
On Tuesday July 29, 1997 Mr Phillip Kilonzo, a retired former Police Commissioner who was at the centre of the investigation into Dr Robert Ouko’s assassination seven years earlier, was driven into his favourite pub in Matuu.
He asked that half-a-kilo of meat be prepared for him, then sat down to sip his favourite drink — White Cap. Halfway through his glass, he is called out to receive a heifer given to him as a gift by a local councillor.
When he came back to his seat and took a sip from his glass, he exclaimed; “This beer tastes different. What have you done to it?”
Those were his last words…minutes later he was dead, another statistic on the killer trail that followed witnesses and investigators of Ouko’s murder, estimated to be about 100 today.
They include former powerful Permanent Secretary Hezekiah Oyugi; former head of Pan-African Group who died hours before appearing before the Ouko Commission; Oidho Agalo, the farmhand and Otieno Gor who were among the people who saw the Minister just hours before he disappeared; Martin Ochanda was attached to the Kisumu Special Branch office and was a friend of Dr Ouko…James Eric Onyango, a relative and confidant of the late Minister, and who was among the people Dr Ouko talked to on the telephone on the night he disappeared; Nehemiah Shikuku Obati the Senior Assistant Commissioner of Police who spearheaded the arrest and interrogation of the Ouko murder chief suspects, among them Mr Nicholas Biwott, who was briefly arrested.
Thirteen years later, the family has not seen the post-mortem examination reports and finding of toxicology texts by the Government Chemist of what was left of Kilonzo’s beer… and for a top cop, no statements taken from potential witnesses, no word on who wanted him dead… just silence!
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