Politics, money and sex are the biggest drivers of assassinations

I wrote years ago about lessons gleaned as a reporter interviewing mortuary staff. Those lessons come to mind given what is happening around us. They confirm that even the best planned murder has a way of leaving traces and tracks.

Mzee Josphat Gichini Ngugi served as Superintendent of the Nairobi City Mortuary for decades. Following the murder of former Permanent Secretary Alexander Sawe in 1998 in a fire incident, he was the one who received the body. Though reported as a fire incident, Gichini and his staff noticed a wet spot oozing blood from Sawe’s charred body.