Anguka;
Please hold on to your so called testimony. Nobody has asked you to come forward and give your own personal defense. In any case, this is NOT the BEST place for you to give your testimony. Please hold on to whatever evidence you mighy be having to exonarate you from the unresolved Ouko mureder and do not rush and start spilling the beans just before you have been called upon by the right authorities to tell us your side of the story. May I call to your attention that you have contradicted yourselve in paragraph three below, by saying that your former colleagues including yourself had been arrested and locked up while in the last sentence you denie having been arrested. Which is which Bwana DC? You are a career civil servant trained to document authentic and detailed security reports, is this the type of security reports you used to write? Why are you in hurry to tell us that you were framed and why has it taken you 18 years to come up with this partial evidence? Bwana
Anguka this is not the right place to give your testimony, channel your testimony to your attorney if you have one sir. Good luck.
Toi
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angukaj wrote:
On November 25, 1991, I left my official Nakuru District Commissioner’s residence, for the office, just before 8.00 am. I was driven in my official staff car by Kari Sumbule. My bodyguard was Administration Police Constable, Kioko. A week earlier, I had received notification of a Provincial Commissioners and District Commissioners meeting with President Moi in Nairobi, on November at 10.00 am.
I was dressed in my official District Commissioner’s uniform. At State House gate together with colleagues, we were informed that the meeting had been postponed until 2.00 pm. I proceeded to Karen, eight kilometers to the west of the city centre, to inspect a family residential house that I was constructing. While there, Sambule who had remained in the car with the radio on, heard that that the President had dissolved the Ouko Commission. (The Commission of three
judges was appointed by President Moi to look into the circumstances surroundng the murder of Foreign Minister Robert Ouko)
Consequently and incredibly, a number of people had been arrested in connection with Dr Ouko’s murder, including (Energy Minister) Nicholas Biwott, Hezekiah Oyugi (the Permanent Secretary in the President’s Office in charge of Internal Security and Provincial Administration), Julius Kobia (Nyanza Provincial Commissioner) and myself. At that stage I did not know the position of others; but obviously I had not yet been arrested.
A brother-in-law, William, and my brother Ambrose arrived to express their concern at my sister Ruth’s house. I decided to return with Sambule and Kioko to State House to attend the President’s meeting. Ambrose and my sisters followed us in a different vehicle.
I did not make it to the meeting. The gates to State house were locked and provincial and district commissioners were standing outside. As the car pulled up I was assailed by over 40 plainclothes and uniformed General Service Unit (GSU) paramilitary police. They were armed with assault rifles, sub-machine guns and pistols.
They cocked and aimed their weapons at Sambule, Kioko and myself. The security men shouted at the top of their voices, “get out of the vehicle, surrender and lie down, or be shot!” As one can imagine when 40 assault rifles are pointed at you, we did as directed. I was never informed that I was under arrest or why I was being treated so. I thought that this was a very unprofessional, brutal and primitive way of effecting an arrest. Even if the police were acting on or ders from President Moi, who was only yards away, awaiting information about my arrest, this police brutality was uncalled for.
The police did not come to look for me. Although the government was announcing over the media repeatedly that I had been arrested, I did not go underground. Instead I brought myself to where the authorities were. I had nothing to hide or run away from.
I was hurled into an unmarked white police Toyota Corolla, sandwiched between armed policemen and whisked away at high speed with blaring police sirens. The speed and commotion reminded me of a bank robbery get-away car leaving with ill-gotten loot.
We sped straight to GSU headquarters in Ruaraka. GSU headquarters is surrounded with a high stone wall. Once there I was ordered to remove my shoes and my official uniform was taken from me – the only clothes that I had on my back – and locked in a dark, dusty bare room with no windows. It was simply darkness and a cold concrete floor. I was kept there alone from 3.00 pm until after midnight. It was exhausting to stand but too cold a floor to sit or sleep on. Time dragged on endlessly. While in this loneliness and uncertainty, I kept thinking that months ago Dr Robert Ouko had gone to State House to meet with President Moi. The very same venue of my aborted meeting with Moi.
Unlike me, however, Dr Ouko met with the President, yet seven days later he disappeared and was murdered.
At midnight, I heard the heavy thud of boots and the door opened abruptly. “Come out!” ordered a deep harsh voice. I had stayed alone in darkness for hours on end , not even allowed to answer the call of nature. It was so long that when the door opened, I felt like I had been discovered by an archeologist. I was brought into the brightly lit corridor, handcuffed and escorted by half a dozen heavily armed GSU personnel. It took time to acclimatise. By then I was seated infront of a Senior Assistant Commissioner of Police, Nehemiah Obati.
He did not tell me that I was under arrest, nor inform me of my constitutional rights. Nevertheless he interrogated me about Dr Ouko’s death until 4.00 am when I was locked away in a different cell for the remainder of the night. I was not given food, not even water.
STAY TUNED I WILL TELL YOU MORE LATER.
KENYANS NEED TO KNOW THE TRUTH.
Sent by Toi via Mwanyagetinge.
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READERS: Please note that this report is UNCONFIRMED and unedited by Jaluo Press.
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 12:38:55
Subject: How I was framed over Ouko murder
Who knows if Anguka has been spotted in Minnesota? This is where this guy is writing from and he/she is a Comcast Communications subscriber. If the really Anguka resides elsewhere, then this is an impersonating fellow.
Zedekiah
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 13:30:14
Subject: Re: [Mwanyagetinge] How I was framed over Ouko murder Part II
With all due respect I repeat what I said yesterday, your timing is way off or there is a sinister motive behind this if indeed what you are telling is the truth and you are who you say you are. I have very strong suspicion that this is propaganda to scare Kenyans that my hero Prime Minister designate Raila Amolo Odinga (RAO) is coming to power to conduct witch hunting.
I have a feeling that you are working from the other side.
How come you feel that this is the place and time to come out with this?
I will not be surprised to see more of the same from Anglo Leasing, Goldenburg and Armenian sagas to name a few come out with scare tactics. A commission of truth and reconciliation has not even convened yet. Again: “The truth will come out my friendâ€.
My brother/sister your timing is suspect. Kenyans are very intelligent and will not fall for anything just like that. Period
Keen Nyamwange
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angukaj wrote:
I have realized that some people have decided to make some noise over what I have written so far in this forum. I you have any doubts that this is Anguka`s words read my book ABSOLUTE POWER. I hereby continue with part two. The truth has to be told.
For one week, I was shuttled between GSU headquarters and the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) headquarters in Nairobi for interrogation. No member of my family was allowed to see me. The police refused to reveal to them my whereabouts and the authorities denied me access to a lawyer. I could not change or wash. I reeked and felt disgusting. This was a a process of mental torture so that I would accept whatever incriminating suggestions put to me. As the interrogating team including Obati, Stanley Mutungi, and Kenneth Mathenge, worked on me, other policemen went about concocting “evidence” from government employees who had worked under me previously. These included the drivers Paul Kuria and John Njoroge Ruhari. Njoroge refused to support their lies against me and the government sacked him.
Others were the administration policemen who were guarding my official residence in Nakuru during the month of February, 1990. The policemen were Mario Titiket and Samuel Waseges, besides my long term bodyguard Pius Omolo. After my arrest, Omolo, too, was arrested and brought to CID headquarters. At one stage when I saw him he was shivering with bloodshot eyes and in a deplorable state.
To give credence to their fictitious motive, the police used my ex-boss Mohammed Yusuf Haji, the then Provincial Commissioner Rift Valley. They went to him to testify to a supposed relationship between Dr Ouko and my wife. Haji is one of the senior government officers who accompanied Moi to the United States. When (Scotland Yard’s Detective Inspector) Troon wanted to question these officials who included Haji, Kilonzo, the Police Commissioner, forced him to stop.
During my second week in police custody, Kenneth Mathenge was assigned to record my statement. Mathenge, like fellow policemen who had interrogated me orally, was not interested in the truth. He had received instructions from his seniors that I alone killed Dr Ouko.
Even as he was recording my statement, Mathenge got telephone instructions in my presence on which questions to ask me. The police were so close-minded in their decision to scapegoat me that they would not even record my alibi.
The night Dr Ouko disappeared and was probably murdered, I went to Rongai, about 40 kilometers from Nakuru, to visit the ailing Rongai Member of Parliament and Assistant Minister for Lands, Erick Bomett.
He later stated to the police that:
“…on the 12th February 1990 at about 7.00 pm Mr Anguka came to my house… Mr Anguka also brought me some rice and wheat flour bales. We stayed and chatted together. We also had supper at my residence. At about 10.30 pm Mr Anguka left.”
I returned to my residence in Nakuru at 11.00 pm. That night I never went anywhere at all. The driver who took me to Rongai, Zablon Orina, and my bodyguard during the trip, Sylvestor Ojoro, both confirmed this in their statements to police. The night guards, Mario Titiket and Samuel Waseges, who were at the only gate of the residence, told police that they never saw me leave that night. Above all I informed police that I had spent the rest of the night with my nephew, Isaiah Oddotte, who was living with me. They never bothered to check with Isaiah.
In a normal investigation, the police would check the validity of an alibi. Although the police had all this evidence, they went ahead and charged me for a crime which they knew I had no physical opportunity to commit.
Regarding my alibi, the trial judge said: “…To my mind, it was enough for the accused (Anguka) just to say he went to Erick Bommet’s home, had supper there and then when he came back in the house he never left for any other place that night… And given the time of the incident when the deceased is alleged to have left his home (around 3.00 am) I wouldn’t be convinced that after being massaged by Oddotte at 12.30 pm, he would have left the house, taken him to some place where he was shot and then brought him to the scene and set his body on fire during that night then went back to his house to be ready for duty at 7.15 am when he was picked by PW 15 (Kuria) to work on 13th February, 1990. I cannot say there can be any difference given the evidence of Acting Assistant Commissioner of Police Joseph Mwangi who took measurements of the distance and time from Nakuru to Koru and back on 22nd January 1992… The defence of alibi offered by the accused has raised a reasonable doubt in my mind as to whether he was at the scene of the murder at all or whether he could have taken any part in the commission of the serious crime.”
On the morning of December 10, 1990, along with Biwott and Oyugi, I left GSU headquarters for CID headquarters, which was the scene of numerous activities. Telephones were ringing almost non-stop and with it consultations and negotiations. At 10.00 am the police formally charged me with the Ouko murder, a charge I denied.
At 4.00 pm the police summoned one of my lawyers, Assa Nyakundi.
They wanted to negotiate that after being charged in court, I should request, through the lawyer, to be remanded in police custody to enable them to complete their investigations! If it wasn’t so serious a situation it could have been deemed unreal.
After two weeks of appalling, unconstitutional treatment they were now negotiating with me to stay in their custody and help them complete their investigation of me. Later along the line it became clear why they wanted me back in their hands. Thankfully, I refused otherwise I would most probably not have lived.
At 5.00 pm Biwott and Oyugi left CID headquarters. Soon I realised that they did not head for court but for their freedom. Fifteen minutes later I was sandwitched between six heavily-armed CID officers, in an unmarked police vehicle, with Mathenge in charge. There were four other unmarked police cars, two ahead of the one I was in and two behind. I enquired from Mathenge the whereabouts of Biwott and Oyugi. He replied: “Don’t worry about them – mind about yourself.”
The slow, meandering journey from CID headquarters, through the heavy traffic to the Nairobi Law Courts was symbolic of the long battle with the regime I was to encounter for 1,000 days. Hundcuffed, we entered the law courts and I was led into the Chief Magistrate’s Court.
(Anguka was charged with the murder of Dr. Robert Ouko. He pleaded not guilty and was remanded)
So here I was, charged and securely locked away at Kamiti Maximum Security Prison, with a total of seven gates and doors between me and liberty. After my mother’s death, I had inherited her vernacular Holy Bible. During my journey from State House to Kamiti, it was the only possession that no authority attempted to take away from me.
Consequently, when I was locked in cell number 45, I was not alone:
I had with me the living word, a companion for life and beyond.
After refusing to be remanded in police custody following the arraignment, police pursued me at Kamiti Maximum Prison. They were led by Kenneth Mathenge, the lead negotiator for my return to police custody. The police were accompanied by a doctor who came ostensibly to examine me as to whether I was mentally fit to stand trial.
READERS: Please note that this report is UNCONFIRMED and unedited by Jaluo Press.
In fact ,Ouko’s death was top government arrangement which was no way be connected with Anguko’s wife. There was no away that such government could get lost without security knowledge.Those who planned and killed ouko had their own reasons which was to do with multiparty democracy introduction in kenya.The top people in the government were seeing ouko as a threat of their position which they were using for corruption.
These people new that ouko was standing a better chance to be supported by the international community which was gainst corrupt leaders like Moi. This was the time when western world were asking for removal of corrupt leaders like MOBUTU,MOI,KAUNDA,BANDA,ETC who were equally dictators. Ouko being not corrupt, the moi government was to elimanate him so that his position would not be disturbed.
Plan might have been worked with our usual enamies who also ouko to be an obstacle after moi. They were looking forword a day when they would take over the leadership over kenya inorder to continue enjoying.This was the reason why moi said after ouko’s death that he had seen what he never expected. There might have people who cheated to be him at plan but later started to fight him because he was now weak.
Immediately,after the media announcement at that ouko was lost the following morning there were publications informing
people that ouko had been killed by moi. This shown very clearly that the arrangement of killing was done by top security which latter wanted to fix moi alone.
It is just unfortunate that Kanyouto died before telling kenyans who killed Pinto,Mboya,J.M,Ouko.and the rest who died mysteriuosly. God is going to judge him.
In fact,John Anguka case,he was just sacrificial lamb to make ouko death appear as a luo and love affairs.
The narc government wanted to use ouko’s matter so that luo and moi’s people could continue be suspicious of each others for them to continue mimanaging the country. Some the people who were in narc were the architectors of the plan of killing ouko so that luos could rebelled against moi government for them to takeover the government. These were plans designed by the head of special branch.
For those who went to school with Anguka,nobody can believe up to now that he could be a killer. This is man who has been prayful from youth. In fact, Anguka has been a true christian .
Dominic,
It is hard to guess what is prompting Anguka to start telling “his part of the story” at this time on the murder of Dr. Ouko. However, your response sounds even more ridiculars than what Anguka is trying to advance. If we have to believe your line of thinking, then Kenyans will never know who committed these murders. Can we give the proposed Truth Commission a chance? You could even go to the Truth Commission when it is formed, swear by the (venacular?) Bible and tell them how “saintly” Anguka is! Give us a break!
Teddy.