Opposition luminary Moses Wetang’ula yesterday scoffed at the Kenya police order for him to record a statement.
The police wanted the Ford-Kenya Party leader to record a statement regarding what he knew about the killing of controversial businessman Jacob Juma.
Speaking to The Standard in his office, Wetang’ula said he won’t show up at any police station.
Asked if he would record a statement as ordered by the Inspector General of Police, Joseph Boinnet, the Senate Minority Leader, who is also the Bungoma Senator, had four terse words: “No! Why should I?”
“I said what I said, and that is, that Jacob Juma told me that there was a very senior person in government who had hired skilled hit men to kill him,” said Wetang’ula.
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He said the police were not serious about the probe.
“He told me, that ‘If I die, do not keep quiet with this information’. He did not just tell me. That is the same message he told Cyrus Jirongo, Raila Odinga, Boni Khalwale and many others,” the Bungoma senator told The Standard.
Yesterday, Mr Boinnet said they are yet to crack the case and urged anyone with information, including Wetang’ula, to record a statement with investigators.
Boinnet said a special team of experienced detectives were probing the murder and already two cartridges from an AK47 believed to have been used in the gruesome murder have been recovered.
And the rural home of the late Juma in Mungore, Bungoma County, was yesterday abuzz as relatives and friends were putting final touches to burial arrangements for the slain tycoon.
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Juma’s brothers Eliud Makokha, 68, and Gerishon Wesonga, 63, were overseeing the preparations. Mourners watched every person who visited the well-manicured home, which Juma built for himself but was last there in 2010.
The family has already identified a site beside Juma’s bungalow where the body will be laid to rest. Two other brothers, Michael Juma and Charles Juma, are in Nairobi busy with funeral arrangements.
The family claimed Juma was assassinated by a senior person and vowed to perform rituals to cast a spell on the suspect.
“We are not going to bury our brother in the normal way you bury a man who dies of natural causes. We will utter binding words inside his grave before he is laid to rest allowing his (Juma’s) spirit to deal with his killer(s) in the harshest way,” said Mr Wesonga.
