When a special branch spy hid at City Mortuary to steal JM Kariuki’s body

Leader of NYS JM Kariuki (far right) talks to servicemen at a Machakos road project in September 1966. [File, Standard]

It took the keen eye of Kisumu Town MP, Grace Onyango, to stop a spy lurking at City Mortuary, in a white coat with a label, pretending to be a mortuary attendant.

Onyango was in a group of angry MPs who had stormed the City Mortuary but were being prevented from seeing the bodyof their colleague. The white robed spy insisted that he was under strict instructions not to allow anybody into the mortuary. What the spy did not know was that amid the MPs was Kibera, an off duty superintendent of police whose orders he could not defy.