The late Mutula Kilonzo was eliminated in a scheme involving workers or persons very close to him, his son told the High Court on Tuesday.
Makueni Senator Mutula Kilonzo Jr told an inquest into the death on April 27, 2013 that their suspicion arose from lack of reports on the persons the legislator last talked to
"I expected a report on who the workers or the people my father spoke or made contact with hours or days before he died but no such report has ever been done."
Kilonzo said a massive cover-up of his father’s death was hatched after the postmortem was conducted on April 30, 2013 at Lee Funeral Home in Nairobi.
The legislator said this followed the handling of 64 samples extracted from the first Makueni Senator's body that were to be taken to the UK for toxicology.
He told the court Ian Koller, a family pathologist hired from the UK and who was part of the postmortem, was sent unsealed samples for further examination.
Government pathologist Johansen Oduor and Dr Luke Musau, Mutua's then personal doctor at Nairobi Hospital, conducted the autopsy.
The other three specialists who took part in the six-hour postmortem were doctors Rukena, Mwangi, and Gachie.
Kilonzo said the family first read a suspicious move after Koller was not allowed to travel back to the UK with the samples.
The test was to reveal the substance that caused his father to bleed excessively as detailed in the former justice minister's cause of death report.
The Makueni legislator said this was despite the advisory by Oduor that the country could not conduct further tests.
"Dr Musau and Dr Gachie told us Nairobi Hospital had the capacity to handle the samples and later send them to Koller once he got back to the UK," he said.
"The test was to take four to six weeks but we could not get information from Dr Musau until Koller sent a disturbing email about the samples on November 14, 2013."
Kilonzo said in the letter also copied to Musau and Gachie, Koller complained he went against professional ethics to examine unsealed samples.
Koller had told Musau and Gachie that he would not sign his final report before receiving sealed samples.
'Tug of war'
Kilonzo said that after that revelation by Koller, what followed was a tug of war between the family and the doctors as the family tried to question the validity of samples.
"As a family, we launched a complaint with all the pathologists and the DPP with the aim of trying to know of any possible criminal activity in the transportation of the samples."
"No explanation was given on why the samples were in Nairobi for days and under whose custody, Kilonzo told the inquest.
He said the hospital's management, as well as the courier firm that delivered them to the UK, has never been questioned by police on the missteps.
"I was disappointed in the manner in which my father's death, despite being a senior Kenyan politician, was handled casually," Kilonzo said.
The Makueni Senator also laughed off a theory that his father might have overdosed on pellets found in his dressing room. There was a report that he took them with a carbonated drink.
"What those who said so did not know is that my father never took carbonated drinks in his lifetime," the legislator said adding the man was threatened with death many times.
"I remember around February 2013, he had withdrawn a threat case against a woman by the name Nduku after learning unknown people had used her phone to threaten him without her knowledge."
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The legislator added that it pained him that even the inquest on his father’s death might be nothing but a cold trail.
"I am greatly pained standing here to testify in an inquiry which may never produce any result."
The case will continue on October 10.
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