By Leo Odera Omolo in isii Town
A young Kenyan journalist whose headless decomposing body was in January this year recovered in a thick forty five miles from his home was lured by his killers who allegedly lured him to accompany them to a place so that he could write a stpory and expose corruption.
Francis Kaindi Nyaruri,the Kisii based correspondent oif the Nairobi based WEEKLY CITIZEN whose grissly murder in January this year raised tension and political temprature in Kisii region was a budding writer well known for his fearlessness.
His suspected killers are said to be on the run and hiding fearing top police officers suspected of complicity to the killing will eliminate them to conceal evidence.
It has been revealed thata section of the Sungu Sungu splinter group has been engaged by the suspects to execute the journalist.
The alleged killers whose number is said to be seven are said to have gone underground and into hiding in fear that the secrets of those who hired them to kill the scribe is just about to be unearthed.
A source privt to the police sources talking on condition of anonymity,confirmed that fear has gripped Kisii and Nyamira regions when a section of the press reported the arrest of the taxi driver who carried the late Nyaruri to a local politician’s house in Suneka Town, about ten kilometres outskirt of Kisii town on the fateful 16th January day.
The government of Kenya is said to have taken exceptionally serious noite of the heinous killing of the scribe and that a nteam of detectives were recently dispatched from Kisii.TYhese sleuths are said to have traced the driuver through the slain journalist’s mobile handset phonbe, which the driver gave to his wife to use after it was erroneously droipped by the killers in his vehicle.
Data obtained from Safaricom, the largest mobile phone provider by the invastigating team shows communications between a lecturer at Gusii Institute of Technology, a Mr Joseph Onundu, the Officer Commanding Police Division {OCPD} Nyamira,Mr Lawrence Njoroge, Mwaura,Kisii OCPDAugustine Kiniantira,Nyamira Town Clerk Mr. George Otieno, former Kisii Municipality M
The fact that you are giving some details about the killing OF THIS REPORTER indicates that the investigation of this case is already compromised.
In a country like Kenya, where the value of human life is reduced to rumours, the impunity will never go away and the losers are the suffering public who has no one representing them. They are merely being used by political elites AND THOSE HELPING THEM TO STAY IN THEIR GENOCIDAL POWER during the election circles.
The killing of Robert of Robert Ouko and Km Kariuki were never solved and some of their killers are stilll at large or engaged in more killings. Soon they will find some fall guy like Anguka to blame!