NAIROBI, KENYA: Investigations into the death of Senator Mutula Kilonzo have taken a new turn after traces of a second drug were discovered in blood samples.
This follows the earlier discovery of sildenafil citrate in the late Makueni Senator’s blood. The probe is now expected to determine how the second drug got into his body and whether the two prescription medications caused his death.
Impeccable sources told The Standard On Saturday that forensic experts at the Government Chemist have concluded tests on samples taken from Mutula’s body and filed a report with the new findings. Police investigators collected the report from the offices of the Government Chemist on Friday last week.
Our sources say the document reports the blood samples showed traces of both sildenafil citrate and ephedrine hydrochloride. The former is used to treat high blood pressure or prescribed as Viagra for male problems. The latter is a stimulant used to treat patients with asthma or a blocked nose.
Effects of two drugs
Toxicologists think the combination of the two drugs might explain why Mutula bled through various openings and even vomited blood. The other explanation offered was tuberculosis, which can cause sudden death.
Experts say ephedrine HCL works like adrenaline, raising blood pressure with more prolonged though less potent action. When used with other stimulants, like coffee or cough products, it may increase the risk of fatal side effects, including stroke, heart attack and seizures.
Investigators are, however, puzzled as to how and where the ephedrine got into Mutula’s body. The prescription drug is not one of the 100-or-so items that police collected from his Kwa Kyelu ranch in Machakos County. “All the drugs we collected from the house are just normal drugs which most people have in their houses like pain killers,” our source says. “But none of those were found in his body when we carried out (toxicology) tests.”
Forensic experts at the Government Chemist say they also conducted DNA tests on the samples provided by Police to ascertain their origin.
“Although we were not requested to carry out DNA tests, we did so just to be sure the samples were his and not those of someone else,” our source says. Just before Mutula’s burial, one Ms Eunice Nthenya moved to court seeking a DNA test to confirm he was father to her seven-year-old son.
Family members and others have said Mutula, 64, was in good health. A gym instructor at the Hilton Hotel says the former minister seemed well during a session a day before he was found dead at his Valhalla home. It is, therefore, unclear whether he took ephedrine HCL as part of a prescription medication or as a non-prescription herbal or dietary supplement. Other uses for the drug include treating breathing problems and allergies. Experts also say the drug could have been administered by a third party without his knowledge.
’Unusual’ damage
Preliminary investigations reported exclusively in The Standard On Saturday three weeks ago revealed “unusual” damage to Mutula’s liver and no signs of poison in his blood, vomit and other body tissues. Pathologists were trying to tell what could have caused the damage. A source that attended the post-mortem examination on April 30 said, “the liver looked dry, as if it had been burnt.”
Mutula vomited food and blood in his room sometime before he was found dead on the morning of April 27 this year. Samples tested at the Government Chemist found no known poison. Tests for radioactivity to rule out poisoning with agents like polonium-210 were also negative.
Suspicions immediately surrounded his sudden demise with family, friends and acquaintances testifying that he was “in good health”. At the time, none of them spoke of treatment for any illness.
An autopsy was carried out in the presence of nine pathologists, including Chief Government Pathologist Johansen Oduor and a British sudden death specialist, Ian Calder, representing the family. Dr Calder is supervising tests of liver and body hair samples. The team declined to release their findings, saying they would await toxicology tests that would take “eight to ten weeks”.
Dr Oduor and his colleagues were recently criticised for not waiting for toxicology reports before releasing the results of a post-mortem on Prof George Saitoti and five others.
The test results eventually made no difference to the official finding they did from injuries sustained in a helicopter crash.
Born in Mbooni Constituency in 1948, Mutula became chairman of the Law Society of Kenya, a Senior Counsel and a Cabinet minister, having served in the Justice and Nairobi Metropolitan Development ministries. Prior to his election as Makueni County’s first senator, he served as Mbooni’s representative in the Tenth Parliament. He was a key leader in the Coalition for Reform and Democracy (Cord), led by former Prime Minister Raila Odinga.
He is most recently remembered for his role in pushing for the passing and implementation of the 2010 Constitution. As Justice minister Mutula unsuccessfully fought to pass a Bill seeking to set up a tribunal to try suspects of post-election violence locally.
Very true Mr. Ngatia. The boy was tempered with accurately. I have never seen any one broken rib whose symptom erupts after one week. After one week it is already healing. This stomach erosion is a slow poison inflicted through the skin or liquids. CORD is a big party in Kenya. By now they should be thinking i the direction of having their doctors, nurses, etc, etc, enough with this nonsense of trusting the gov. pat.
Gordon Teti · Top Commenter · University of Manitoba · 3,204 followers
ARAP Machozi William Ruto, a suspect of genocide and mass murderer of Kikuyu children and women who were locked in Kiambaa church in Eldoret before they were burnt alive at the height of the post election violence (PEV) in 2008 is lying to Kenyans that the Kenya Defence Forces killed 100 Alshaabab militants who killed innocent Kenyans in cold blood in Mandera on Saturday, November 22, 2014.
This is total none sense propaganda. Show Kenyans and the world the evidence as Alshaabab did. The dead Kenyans were paraded for the world to see. Choices have consequences. Kenya is a failed state. Period and end of story. Danganya jinga wewe not Kenyans.
We, as people, are not stupid as your stupid attitude makes you believe. Alshaabab showed the world the dead bodies of Kenyans that they murdered in cold blood when a useless government that was rigged was sleeping on the job. Show the world the bodies of the dead Alshaabab militants that you claim were killed by Kenya Defence Forces.
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Gordon Teti · Top Commenter · University of Manitoba · 3,204 followers
ARAP Machozi William Ruto, a suspect of genocide and mass murderer of Kikuyu children and women who were locked in Kiambaa church in Eldoret before they were burnt alive at the height of the post election violence (PEV) in 2008 is lying to Kenyans that the Kenya Defence Forces killed 100 Alshaabab militants who killed innocent Kenyans in cold blood in Mandera on Saturday, November 22, 2014.
This is total none sense propaganda. Show Kenyans and the world the evidence as Alshaabab did. The dead Kenyans were paraded for the world to see. Choices have consequences. Kenya is a failed state. Period and end of story. Danganya jinga wewe not Kenyans.
The final race was attended by His Majesty King Abdullah II of Jordan, President Ali Bongo of Gabon, President of Kenya Uhuru Kenyatta, President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, President of Tatarstan, Rustam Minnikhanov, President of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades, President of the Republic of Kosovo, Madam Atifete Jahjaga, President of Serbia, Tomislav Nikolic, President of Seychelles James Michel, and Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Kingdom of Bahrain. http://www.emirates247.com/news/government/mohammed-gen-mohamed-at-abu-dhabi-f1-grand-prix-2014-11-24-1.571093
Why does this idiot so called ‘government pathologist’ (half baked)still carry out autopsies of all these mysterious deaths when we all know about his ‘very bad reputation’? What a rotten pile of garbage! Get a neutral pathologist to carry out the autopsy. How I hate this dirty politicians and their dirty, manipulative politics. RIP Kajwang!
Hapa ikoGitu >Police panic as possible ICC witness disappears
Tuesday, November 25, 2014 – 07:00 — BY KAMORE MAINA
MISSING: Francis Okonya Photo/HEZRON NJOROGE
MISSING: Francis Okonya Photo/HEZRON NJOROGE
SENIOR police are in turmoil after former senior Deputy Police Commissioner Francis Okonya vanished last Friday.
His official car was reportedly seen driving into the US embassy in Gigiri on Friday afternoon following an acrimonious row with Inspector General David Kimaiyo and his deputy Grace Kaindi in the morning.
Okonya has since disappeared and his phones are switched off. Police officers went to his home in Westlands on Friday and Saturday but his family said that they had not seen him.
The police panic is largely because Okonya was the chief police investigator into the post election violence in 2008.
The National Police Service Commission dismissed him in April after he was vetted. However he went to court and the court ruled that he should stay in office until the matter is heard and determined.
Okonya resumed work in May but last Friday morning he found that the locks on his office had been changed.
He first confronted Deputy IG Grace Kaindi at her office in Vigilance House. He then stormed over to Kimaiyo’s office in Jogoo House around 9am.
Two of his cars were withdrawn but he then drove out of the compound of Vigilance House at 9am in his official MG car. That car was reportedly spotted at the US embassy at around 3pm by GSU guards who called Vigilance House.
Okonya’s office has now been allocated to Senior Assistant Inspector General of Police Joseph Ashimalla who has been appointed deputy to Kaindi.
Top cops tried repeatedly to reach Okonya but he had switched off his mobile phones.
The fear is that Okonya might volunteer to be a witness in the International Criminal Court against President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto.
As Deputy Director of CID in 2008, he prepared a detailed Power Point and 100 gigabyte report that he presented to senior police officers.
He also made several appearances at the Waki Commission that investigated the post-election violence. It was the ‘Waki envelope’ containing the names of top suspects that eventually led to the ICC prosecutions in Kenya.
Former head of the Administration Police training college, Uku Kaunya, went into exile in 2010. There has been widespread speculation that he is still a potential witness at the ICC.
ICC Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda made frantic efforts in 2012 to question Provincial Police Officers and Provincial Commissioners over the 2007/2008 post election violence.
Former Internal Security minister George Saitoti refused permission to police officers to give information to the ICC that might compromise national security or incriminate themselves.
Yesterday, a senior official told the Star that he is shocked that the ICC might still be interested in the evidence of police chiefs.
“PCs and PPOs are not like documents that you can hand over to the ICC prosecutor. If the ICC wants any evidence from us, let the court approach us individually and such a request will be considered,” he said.
In October 2010, former ICC Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo wrote to then AG Amos Wako requesting to interview police chiefs on how they managed the post-election violence with details of their provincial security meetings at the time.
In 2011, Judge Daniel Musinga barred Justice Kalpana Rawal from taking the evidence of the security chiefs.
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NAIROBI, KENYA: Investigations into the death of Senator Mutula Kilonzo have taken a new turn after traces of a second drug were discovered in blood samples.
This follows the earlier discovery of sildenafil citrate in the late Makueni Senator’s blood. The probe is now expected to determine how the second drug got into his body and whether the two prescription medications caused his death.
Impeccable sources told The Standard On Saturday that forensic experts at the Government Chemist have concluded tests on samples taken from Mutula’s body and filed a report with the new findings. Police investigators collected the report from the offices of the Government Chemist on Friday last week.
Our sources say the document reports the blood samples showed traces of both sildenafil citrate and ephedrine hydrochloride. The former is used to treat high blood pressure or prescribed as Viagra for male problems. The latter is a stimulant used to treat patients with asthma or a blocked nose.
Effects of two drugs
Toxicologists think the combination of the two drugs might explain why Mutula bled through various openings and even vomited blood. The other explanation offered was tuberculosis, which can cause sudden death.
Experts say ephedrine HCL works like adrenaline, raising blood pressure with more prolonged though less potent action. When used with other stimulants, like coffee or cough products, it may increase the risk of fatal side effects, including stroke, heart attack and seizures.
Investigators are, however, puzzled as to how and where the ephedrine got into Mutula’s body. The prescription drug is not one of the 100-or-so items that police collected from his Kwa Kyelu ranch in Machakos County. “All the drugs we collected from the house are just normal drugs which most people have in their houses like pain killers,” our source says. “But none of those were found in his body when we carried out (toxicology) tests.”
Forensic experts at the Government Chemist say they also conducted DNA tests on the samples provided by Police to ascertain their origin.
“Although we were not requested to carry out DNA tests, we did so just to be sure the samples were his and not those of someone else,” our source says. Just before Mutula’s burial, one Ms Eunice Nthenya moved to court seeking a DNA test to confirm he was father to her seven-year-old son.
Family members and others have said Mutula, 64, was in good health. A gym instructor at the Hilton Hotel says the former minister seemed well during a session a day before he was found dead at his Valhalla home. It is, therefore, unclear whether he took ephedrine HCL as part of a prescription medication or as a non-prescription herbal or dietary supplement. Other uses for the drug include treating breathing problems and allergies. Experts also say the drug could have been administered by a third party without his knowledge.
’Unusual’ damage
Preliminary investigations reported exclusively in The Standard On Saturday three weeks ago revealed “unusual” damage to Mutula’s liver and no signs of poison in his blood, vomit and other body tissues. Pathologists were trying to tell what could have caused the damage. A source that attended the post-mortem examination on April 30 said, “the liver looked dry, as if it had been burnt.”
Mutula vomited food and blood in his room sometime before he was found dead on the morning of April 27 this year. Samples tested at the Government Chemist found no known poison. Tests for radioactivity to rule out poisoning with agents like polonium-210 were also negative.
Suspicions immediately surrounded his sudden demise with family, friends and acquaintances testifying that he was “in good health”. At the time, none of them spoke of treatment for any illness.
An autopsy was carried out in the presence of nine pathologists, including Chief Government Pathologist Johansen Oduor and a British sudden death specialist, Ian Calder, representing the family. Dr Calder is supervising tests of liver and body hair samples. The team declined to release their findings, saying they would await toxicology tests that would take “eight to ten weeks”.
Dr Oduor and his colleagues were recently criticised for not waiting for toxicology reports before releasing the results of a post-mortem on Prof George Saitoti and five others.
The test results eventually made no difference to the official finding they did from injuries sustained in a helicopter crash.
Born in Mbooni Constituency in 1948, Mutula became chairman of the Law Society of Kenya, a Senior Counsel and a Cabinet minister, having served in the Justice and Nairobi Metropolitan Development ministries. Prior to his election as Makueni County’s first senator, he served as Mbooni’s representative in the Tenth Parliament. He was a key leader in the Coalition for Reform and Democracy (Cord), led by former Prime Minister Raila Odinga.
He is most recently remembered for his role in pushing for the passing and implementation of the 2010 Constitution. As Justice minister Mutula unsuccessfully fought to pass a Bill seeking to set up a tribunal to try suspects of post-election violence locally.
Source: By MARTIN MUTUA
Very true Mr. Ngatia. The boy was tempered with accurately. I have never seen any one broken rib whose symptom erupts after one week. After one week it is already healing. This stomach erosion is a slow poison inflicted through the skin or liquids. CORD is a big party in Kenya. By now they should be thinking i the direction of having their doctors, nurses, etc, etc, enough with this nonsense of trusting the gov. pat.
Former President Daniel Arap Moi (Kenya Adolf Hitler) massacred Somalis of Kenya>
Deputy President William Ruto lies has been exposed shamelessly>
https://www.kenya-today.com/
Gordon Teti · Top Commenter · University of Manitoba · 3,204 followers
ARAP Machozi William Ruto, a suspect of genocide and mass murderer of Kikuyu children and women who were locked in Kiambaa church in Eldoret before they were burnt alive at the height of the post election violence (PEV) in 2008 is lying to Kenyans that the Kenya Defence Forces killed 100 Alshaabab militants who killed innocent Kenyans in cold blood in Mandera on Saturday, November 22, 2014.
This is total none sense propaganda. Show Kenyans and the world the evidence as Alshaabab did. The dead Kenyans were paraded for the world to see. Choices have consequences. Kenya is a failed state. Period and end of story. Danganya jinga wewe not Kenyans.
We, as people, are not stupid as your stupid attitude makes you believe. Alshaabab showed the world the dead bodies of Kenyans that they murdered in cold blood when a useless government that was rigged was sleeping on the job. Show the world the bodies of the dead Alshaabab militants that you claim were killed by Kenya Defence Forces.
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· 5 · 16 hours ago
Gordon Teti · Top Commenter · University of Manitoba · 3,204 followers
ARAP Machozi William Ruto, a suspect of genocide and mass murderer of Kikuyu children and women who were locked in Kiambaa church in Eldoret before they were burnt alive at the height of the post election violence (PEV) in 2008 is lying to Kenyans that the Kenya Defence Forces killed 100 Alshaabab militants who killed innocent Kenyans in cold blood in Mandera on Saturday, November 22, 2014.
This is total none sense propaganda. Show Kenyans and the world the evidence as Alshaabab did. The dead Kenyans were paraded for the world to see. Choices have consequences. Kenya is a failed state. Period and end of story. Danganya jinga wewe not Kenyans.
http://jurist.org/paperchase/2014/11/swedish-appeals-court-reissues-arrest-warrant-for-julian-assange.php
The final race was attended by His Majesty King Abdullah II of Jordan, President Ali Bongo of Gabon, President of Kenya Uhuru Kenyatta, President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, President of Tatarstan, Rustam Minnikhanov, President of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades, President of the Republic of Kosovo, Madam Atifete Jahjaga, President of Serbia, Tomislav Nikolic, President of Seychelles James Michel, and Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Kingdom of Bahrain.
http://www.emirates247.com/news/government/mohammed-gen-mohamed-at-abu-dhabi-f1-grand-prix-2014-11-24-1.571093
Why does this idiot so called ‘government pathologist’ (half baked)still carry out autopsies of all these mysterious deaths when we all know about his ‘very bad reputation’? What a rotten pile of garbage! Get a neutral pathologist to carry out the autopsy. How I hate this dirty politicians and their dirty, manipulative politics. RIP Kajwang!
http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/police-panic-possible-icc-witness-disappears
Hapa ikoGitu >Police panic as possible ICC witness disappears
Tuesday, November 25, 2014 – 07:00 — BY KAMORE MAINA
MISSING: Francis Okonya Photo/HEZRON NJOROGE
MISSING: Francis Okonya Photo/HEZRON NJOROGE
SENIOR police are in turmoil after former senior Deputy Police Commissioner Francis Okonya vanished last Friday.
His official car was reportedly seen driving into the US embassy in Gigiri on Friday afternoon following an acrimonious row with Inspector General David Kimaiyo and his deputy Grace Kaindi in the morning.
Okonya has since disappeared and his phones are switched off. Police officers went to his home in Westlands on Friday and Saturday but his family said that they had not seen him.
The police panic is largely because Okonya was the chief police investigator into the post election violence in 2008.
The National Police Service Commission dismissed him in April after he was vetted. However he went to court and the court ruled that he should stay in office until the matter is heard and determined.
Okonya resumed work in May but last Friday morning he found that the locks on his office had been changed.
He first confronted Deputy IG Grace Kaindi at her office in Vigilance House. He then stormed over to Kimaiyo’s office in Jogoo House around 9am.
Two of his cars were withdrawn but he then drove out of the compound of Vigilance House at 9am in his official MG car. That car was reportedly spotted at the US embassy at around 3pm by GSU guards who called Vigilance House.
Okonya’s office has now been allocated to Senior Assistant Inspector General of Police Joseph Ashimalla who has been appointed deputy to Kaindi.
Top cops tried repeatedly to reach Okonya but he had switched off his mobile phones.
The fear is that Okonya might volunteer to be a witness in the International Criminal Court against President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto.
As Deputy Director of CID in 2008, he prepared a detailed Power Point and 100 gigabyte report that he presented to senior police officers.
He also made several appearances at the Waki Commission that investigated the post-election violence. It was the ‘Waki envelope’ containing the names of top suspects that eventually led to the ICC prosecutions in Kenya.
Former head of the Administration Police training college, Uku Kaunya, went into exile in 2010. There has been widespread speculation that he is still a potential witness at the ICC.
ICC Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda made frantic efforts in 2012 to question Provincial Police Officers and Provincial Commissioners over the 2007/2008 post election violence.
Former Internal Security minister George Saitoti refused permission to police officers to give information to the ICC that might compromise national security or incriminate themselves.
Yesterday, a senior official told the Star that he is shocked that the ICC might still be interested in the evidence of police chiefs.
“PCs and PPOs are not like documents that you can hand over to the ICC prosecutor. If the ICC wants any evidence from us, let the court approach us individually and such a request will be considered,” he said.
In October 2010, former ICC Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo wrote to then AG Amos Wako requesting to interview police chiefs on how they managed the post-election violence with details of their provincial security meetings at the time.
In 2011, Judge Daniel Musinga barred Justice Kalpana Rawal from taking the evidence of the security chiefs.
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Baboons will be arrested when thieving bananas
Catch the thieves in Cities
Lucy Kibaki emerged in a hospital ICU! its a long long absence from Public limelight!
Meet Kikuyu Woman who used to castrate Kikuyu Men and naughty boys> hapa>
According to Kikuyu legends