With MP Gitobu Imanyara so much in the news recently, we thought we would remind our readers that Mr. Imanyara is also the MP who, quite out of the blue, reintroduced the infamous Gor Sunguh Report into the murder of Dr Robert Ouko in Parliament last December.

Regular readers of the Kenya Forum will know of our view as to the veracity of the Gor Sunguh Commission report (see the Forum’s posting of September 13). The report was rapidly rejected by Parliament but the Kenya Forum has since come to believe that it’s placing before Parliament by Imanyara was not quite what it appeared to be, of which more in a posting coming up in early December.

The Sunguh report, of course, fell hook, line and sinker for the theory that Dr. Ouko had been murdered at State House, Nakuru. Keep that thought in mind for a moment or two.

Dr. Jason Kaviti, the Pathologist who claimed that Robert Ouko, whose corpse was found still burning from having been set alight with diesel, committed suicide, is dead. 

In yesterday’s Sunday Nation, journalist Gakiha Weru wrote a piece on Dr Jason Kaviti (‘Kaviti takes State secrets to the grave’) the former Chief Government Pathologist who was involved in the investigation into Dr. Ouko’s death. Again, regular readers will know of the Kenya Forum’s recent remarks regarding Dr Kaviti (RIP Dr. Jason Kaviti, man who claimed Robert Ouko committed suicide).

There was nothing wrong with Gakiha Weru’s report as far as it went. It was clear and precise. It quite rightly went through Dr. Jason Kaviti’s odd and infamous insistence on sticking to a line that Dr. Ouko (and prior to him, Julie Ward) might have committed suicide.

Did Robert Ouko commit suicide?

What Gakiha Weru’s report did not mention, although the information has been available since at least September 1991, was the key forensic evidence that refuted Kaviti’s analysis. This was the British New Scotland Yard’s forensic report, set out in Detective Superintendent John Troon’s ‘Final report’, which stated clearly that Dr Ouko had been shot where his body was found, or a few feet from that spot, so he could not have been shot in State House or anywhere else.

Now in an article on Dr Kaviti and the murder of Dr Robert Ouko, which inevitably had to concentrate in part on the forensic evidence, why was Scotland Yard’s forensic evidence and the conclusion drawn from them, not mentioned?

Why the press does not report on the forensically established facts: ignorance or censorship?

The Kenya Forum has raised this subject before, asking whether it is just ignorance on the part of some journalists (as in just not knowing), or whether it is some form of censorship, especially as the real and true story of Dr Ouko’s murder is there, waiting for some passably competent journalist to make a name for his or herself.

So just in case it is a matter of simply not knowing, the Kenya Forum would like to direct Nation journalist Gakiha Weru to our posting ‘Robert Ouko’s murder: the media must report these 8 facts‘. Just in case he wants to do any fact-checking.