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HEZEKIAH OYUGI ASSASSINATION.

Hezekiah Oyugi, the Permanent Secretary for Internal Security, has been arguably the most powerful individual in the country after President Daniel Moi.

Provincial administrators stand up and salute whenever he calls them, and President Moi dines in his home whenever he visits the South Nyanza region.

But, he has now fallen from grace. He is accused of having a hand in the murder of Robert Ouko, Kenya’s influential Foreign Affairs minister, touted by powerful foreign nations as the man who could have been president. The year is 1990.

Ouko’s charred remains have been found at Got Alila, a hill, where were it not for a wandering herdsman, wild animals would have eaten every bit of them.

The government pushes the incredible narrative that the minister shot himself dead.

After a public outcry, Oyugi is named as one of the two prime suspects. The other one is powerful Cabinet Minister Nicholas Biwott, nicknamed “Total Man”.

Oyugi vows to die fighting.
He summons a few of his family members and his lawyers and tells them he is ready to make the journey from his home in Nairobi’s Kileleshwa to Kisumu to face a tribunal investigating Ouko’s death.

Scotland Yard detective John Troon, the man hired to investigate the death, has placed Oyugi, who has since been sacked from his position, at the centre of the gruesome murder.

Oyugi confides in his lawyers and family members that he has water-tight evidence that will not only absolve him, but also change the course of the country. He threatens to bring down some “big men”.
He is set to appear before the tribunal the next day.

Then, as the evening sets in, heavily armed policemen raid his home. They turn the house upside down and cart away every document in his possession.

On the day he is scheduled to give evidence, the government disbands the tribunal.

Instead of giving evidence, Oyugi finds himself a prisoner of the State, held incommunicado in a small cell at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport police station in Nairobi. He stays here for the next 14 days.

Body movements;
A month after he is released, he is unable to control his body movements. He keeps collapsing.
The former powerful PS’s illness started by him falling down.

He gradually lost his ability to walk, lost control of one side of his body, was put on a wheelchair and lost his speech. In the end, all his organs failed.

Doctors at BMI Bishops Wood Hospital in the UK, told the family that he was suffering from a motor neurone disease,

which occurs when specialist nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord – the motor neurones – stop working properly.

According to doctors, those who have the disease have a life expectancy of one to five years.

But in Oyugi’s case, the deterioration was so fast, that the doctors made an inconclusive decision that he had been exposed to a foreign substance.

The neurosurgeon called it a very rare poison, which made the body die as if it was a natural death.

The only difference from a natural death is that the body deteriorates very fast.

Oyugi finally Die;
No single senior official went to condole with his family at his Nairobi home and neither did they turn up at the airport to receive his body after it was flown to Kenya from London. They also gave his funeral a wide berth.

No one cared about the family and no one wanted any association with the Oyugis.

Oyugi’s widows live in the family home in the sleepy village of Kanyajuok, South Kamagambo location in Rongo Sub County, where the family patriarch was buried.
Dilapidated roofs

A lot has changed. The huge bungalows that shouted affluence and power are now unkempt, with dilapidated

In Kenya, don't rejoice if you are too close to the power to count the skulls in the their closets. You are more vulnerable than that a homeless street urchin.
Power is Temporary.