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4 CID men
executed Kaiser, MP alleges
Tuesday August 16,
2005
By Joseph Murimi
Kabete MP Paul Muite yesterday told
a Nairobi court that four police officers killed Catholic priest
Antony Kaiser before his body was dumped on the Nakuru-Naivasha
road.
The MP said he was given this
information by a senior police officer who is still in the force
and who he did not name for fear of his security.
He said the officer told him Kaiser
was killed elsewhere and his body dumped along the Nakuru-Naivasha
road.
Muite said the officer had given
him the information in confidence and the trust that he would not
name him.
Muite also told the court that a
Catholic priest named Emmanuel Ngugi lured Kaiser out of the Mill
Hill Mission along Ngong Road in Nairobi and into a trap.
Muite said after Kaiser moved out
of the house, he was abducted and later murdered before his body
was dropped at the scene where it was recovered with its head
blown off.
And he named one of the killer
officers as a Deputy Criminal Investigations Officer (DCIO) who is
a brother to former Cabinet minister Julius Sunkuli.
The others, Muite told the inquest
into the August 2004 death of the priest, included a Chief
Inspector Seroney of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID),
a corporal Ligei and a driver named Njiru of the Flying Squad.
Muite said it was Njiru’s vehicle
which was used by the killers and that after the police officers
executed Kaiser they staged the suicide scene as part of the cover
up.
The MP said further that three
weeks before his death Kaiser had visited his office and told him
that he feared for his life.
He said that Kaiser told him that
members of the security forces sympathetic to him had warned him
that a plot to kill him had been hatched and advised him to get
out of the country.
Muite said the priest told him that
former President Moi and his two former Cabinet ministers Nicholas
Biwott and Sunkuli were behind the threats.
He said that it was Kaiser’s
understanding that the former President was very upset about the
evidence he had given at the Akiwumi Commission on land clashes.
Muite said Kaiser had told the
commission that the retired president was behind the ethnic
cleansing of all Bantu communities from the Rift Valley Province
hence the clashes.
He said the priest did not disclose
the names of his sources and even though he was concerned, he was
adamant about not leaving the country.
"The impression I got is that
he was not going away,’’ Muite told the inquest presided over
by Nairobi Senior Principal Magistrate Mrs Mauren Odero.
Muite said Kaiser told him that
Sunkuli had specifically threatened him and that there was bad
blood between the two.
"His relationship with Sunkuli
was very bad. He believed Sunkuli had never won an election and he
had always been rigged in while Sunkuli thought Fr Kaiser was
after him politically,’’ Muite said.
The MP told the inquiry that the
priest intended to institute criminal charges against the former
president at The Hague.
He said Kaiser had talked to a
former classmate who is practicing law in America and found that
they had case against Moi over crimes against humanity following
the alleged ethnic cleansing in the Rift Valley.
Muite, who was led in his evidence
by State counsel James Mungai, said he got to know Kaiser after he
donated 80 bags of maize meal to victims of Enoosupukia evictions
who had taken refuge at a church.
He said later they became close and
Kaiser would visit, write or call him regularly and even asked him
to represent some clan elders who had been charged in a Naivasha
court over the evictions.
Muite said he believed Kaiser was
not out of his mind as alleged by psychologist Frank Njenga and
that the FBI detective were part of the cover-up.
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