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Kin Refutes Love Link Over Too's
Murder
The East African Standard (Nairobi)
1 February 2008
Nairobi
Details of the last moments of murdered Ainamoi MP David Kimutai
Too continued to emerge.
Family members and colleagues insisted that he was not having an
affair with the policewoman shot alongside him.
The details emerged as ODM demanded an independent inquiry by US
Federal Bureau of Investigation into the deaths of its two MPs in
a span of three days.
ODM leader, Mr Raila Odinga, said he holds the Government
responsible for the deaths of Too and Embakasi MP, Mellitus Mugabe
Were. He said preliminary evidence implicated police officers.
"I challenge the Government that if it is not linked to the
murders, to allow an external probe in the deaths," said Raila.
Konoin MP, Dr Julius Kones, who was among the last people to speak
to the slain MP and a brother to the policewoman, Eunice Chepkwony,
said the two were family friends.
Chepkwony's elder brother, Mr David Kirui, said the Toyota Carina
car the two were shot in was hers.
Kones said he spoke with Too by telephone at around 10am on
Thursday after the MP arrived in Eldoret.
But Jetlink Airline said the MP flew on the 5.15pm flight from
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi, to Eldoret, on
Wednesday evening.
Jetlink managing director, Mr Elly Aluvale, said: "The MP flew
from Nairobi to Eldoret on the 5.15pm flight."
Details of his arrival at Eldoret Airport and his movement until
the time of his death remained scanty.
The MP was next seen together with the policewoman at West Indies
estate where they were shot.
Kones said: "What I know is that he flew to Eldoret on Thursday
morning and was meant to travel by road to Kericho the same day."
Some reports had indicated that the MP arrived in Eldoret on
Thursday morning. But officials of Aero Kenya, whose plane he was
said to have travelled in, denied he was in their plane.
Kones said when he spoke to his departed colleague, he was in a
jovial mood. Too informed Kones that he was in Eldoret but would
travel to his constituency in Kericho.
"We cracked jokes and agreed to meet in Kericho on Friday, as I
intended to travel by road to join him," said Kones.
Kirui told The Saturday Standard that the family had no confidence
in police investigations.
"We strongly dispute reports that our sister had an affair with
the MP or her killer. We are treating that as fabrication by the
police," said Kirui at his late sister's house at Pioneer estate,
Eldoret.
He said Too and his sister, who are neighbours in Ainamoi, met
their deaths while driving to view a piece of land in West Indies.
It also emerged that the MP was set to make payment for a plot he
was to buy jointly with two other people.
"The MP had about Sh400,000 in cash. My sister had also applied
for a bank loan for the payment of the one-acre plot they were to
buy jointly with two other people," said Kirui.
He added: "I have known the late MP as a close friend of my
sister's late husband, Geoffrey Ng'etich."
Raila said: "Our charge is that these are assassinations executed
at the behest of Government orders to reduce the numbers of ODM
MPs in Parliament."
Were was killed by gunmen outside his gate in Nairobi's Woodley
estate on Tuesday.
Reports by Vitalis Kimutai, Stephen Makabila, Brian Adero and
David Ohito
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