Ghururi ya Saitoti .

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  Death in 10 minutes  

This day, 10th June, 2012, marked the end of the road for Kenya’s two powerful cabinet ministers and four others in a grisly plane crash at Ngong hills near Nairobi. The six, were headed to attending a church service and a fundraising at Nhiwa constituency, Homa Bay County. The four, were aboard a Eurocopter AS 350- which was acquired in January from a South African Firm. Witnesses say that they saw the plane nose-dive before crashing and bursting into flames.

The death of the top security personnel’s, sparked several issues both in the political scene and in the daily Kenyan lives. The Security minister, Professor George Saitoti, the then member of parliament for Kajiado constituency, and a long serving Vice President, under President Moy’s government and a presidential hopeful in the 2013 elections, was a key icon in Kenyan politics and a key ally to the President, Hon Mwai Kibaki.On the other side, his deputy Hon Orwa Ojode who was the then member of parliament for Nhiwa Constituency, was also a key icon in politics and a great ally to the Prime Minister, Hon. Raila Odinga.

The death of the two was a great shock to the two coalition leaders (the President and the Prime Minister), the Vice President, ministers, Members of parliament,  and to the nation as a whole and there was mourning everywhere. The Government then immediately set up a commission to investigate on the cause of the death of the two ministers, two pilots and two bodyguards who had accompanied the two leaders.

 The president stated that, the death of the six Kenyans was a devastating loss to our country and that they had left a legacy of service to the country.

The prime Minister stated that they were saddened by the demise of the two leaders that had occurred on the fourth anniversary of the deaths of the late Minister Kipkalya Kones and the late MP for Sotik, Lorna Laboso, who also perished in a plane crash. Mr. Kones  was the then Roads Minister and Ms Laboso  was then the assistant Minister for Roads. Both of them died when their light aircraft crashed in Narok on June 10^th, 2008.”In 2006, minister Bodaya Godana, Mirugi Kariuki  and Titus Ngoyoni together with the MPs Guracha Galgallo and Abdi Sasura died when a Russian- made military aircraft carrying the peace delegation to Marsabit District crashed into a hill due to bad weather.” Said the Prime Minister

After a period of some time, the commission after interviewing different people including the planes manufacturers, tower manager, and plane engineers came up with its findings that they presented to the president but was never made public till today. The findings stated that the plane crash was a result of an accident and not an assassination and also due to lack of the proper service of the plane before it could take off the airport.

However, the media and the nation were not convinced by the investigations made by the commission headed by Justice Kalpana Rawal that stated that the death of the six was an accident and the jicho pevu journalists, Mohammed Ali and John Allan Namu, decided to carry out the evidence and reveal to Kenyans the truth.

The two journalists travelled to South Africa to get some information from the Manufacturers but their efforts bore no fruit however they took some silent photos at the company as they were warned not to take photographs at that palace. The two also interviewed some top police officials who were not ready to give the evidences and they even hid one of the police who was possessing the phone that was owned by Prof. Saitoti. The two journalists had tracked the phone conversations using the serial number of the phone and had been given the details from the service provider of who had the phone of which it happened to be a police officer who had gone to carry the bodies of the deceased and was just from a police post that was just around the scene.

The death of the two came a day after the ministers and their assistants had attended a meeting with the president and the prime minister at Mombasa and it is reported that the internal security minister, the late Saitoti, never slept at the room he was designated for and that he gave out the keys to the bodyguard. However, his deputy too, arrived in a car of one of his friends and not a state car and that he had a chat upto late in the night taking drinks with his fellow friends then later got into a club to enjoy himself. In the morning, the Assistant Minister, left to the airport in a taxi, leaving his car there at the hotel. He bordered a taxi that was just at the parking bay and told the driver that he was late since he had to catch a flight to Nairobi, but what could be the reason for this? Was it that there was a plot already for him? Who knows?

The assistant minister, the late Orwa Ojode arrived at Wilson airport and found his boss already waiting for him at the VIP Lounge ready to leave at any time.

The Jicho Pevu, had revealed that this was a death that was executed in ten minutes and that the two ministers were to be flown to Ndiwa by some two senior pilots until at midnight when the flight routine was changed and the two senior pilots were changed with other two pilots, Nancy Gituanja and Captain Oyoo. Nancy Gituanja and Captain Oyoo, were in a nearby club, relaxing when they received a call from the office that the two of them would be accompanying the minister and his assistant to Ndiwa, a message that never made the two happy as their friends revealed.

That morning, the six got into the Eurocopter ready to leave as the faithful were already waiting to receive their guests in 45 minutes from that time. The two pilots communicated with the tower before leaving the airports runway and everything was okay and there was a clear conversation between the two till when the plane left the zones of the airport and both the captain and tower manager bid the other good day. After leaving the Wilson Airports runway, the captain began conversing with the Jomo Kenyatta's tower and they had a successful conversation till they wished each other good day.

But just after seven minutes, the plane that was being viewed from the police computers seemed to have stopped and what was heard was just two successive coughs from the cockpit, that is from the pilots, without a response then the plane was seen to have taken back the same route back to the airport but then all over sudden, the plane was not visible in the computer meaning it could  have crashed. It was also noted that the pilot and the co-pilot failed to press a red button that could alert the airport for an emergency.

A plane from the airport was sent immediately from the airport to the site where the Eurocopter AS 350 had crashed.  on landing at the scene, they found the Eurocopter, the bodies and belongings  had burned to ashes except for just a few things like  part of the money they had carried to the fundraising and the phones.

Immediately, those who were in the Eurocopter were recognized and at 10.00 a.m, this was the news from both the national and international media,  “this morning the Internal security minister left his house at seven and bid his family goodbye as he got driven to the Wilson airport ready to depart with his assistant minister to a church service in Ndiwa, and hoping to get back in the evening as he had promised to his family but this never came to being as both the minister and his assistant passed away on a fateful accident at Ngong hills near Nairobi.”

However the findings of the Jicho pevu that the pilots could have inhaled Carbon monoxide could be true as the doctors revealed that there was some evidence of the gas although it was not noted by the commission that is against the law. The doctors revealed in a conversation that the gas could take about ten minutes when inhaled before one could die and this could have been used in the assassination as the plane took three minutes at the airports runway then seven minutes on the air before it finally crashed, a total of ten minutes. Therefore this could not actually been an accident but a successful assassination in ten minutes by top security personnel as revealed by the Jicho Pevu.