University of Nairobi security Chief Francis Makau testifying at Nairobi Court on Wednesday September 21,2016.
BY NAIROBI TIMES CORRESPONDENT.
Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria was chief to a group that planned the assassination of University of Nairobi Vice Chancellor.
A court also heard that he attended several meetings in which plans were hatched to eliminate Prof Peter Mbithi.
The group further planned how they would cripple operations at University.
A witness, testifying under oath said he received information that meetings had been taking place to strategies how to eliminate the VC.
“The informant said a meeting took place at Manga Hotel in Limuru attended by Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria and student leaders who were then jostling for posts in SONU,” he said.
He was testifying in a case where Wyclif Ochieng, the accused had implicated the institution’s sacked Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Administration and Finance Prof Bernard Njoroge in the scheme.
He was charged with giving false information.
The witness said a decision was made to engage senior police officers in the matter after Mr Ochieng dropped names of “some VIPs in relation to the planned murder.”
UON security Chief Mr Francis Makau told the court that the gravity of the matter and the people mentioned drove them to involve a senior police officer at the county command.
“I felt it should be handled by senior police officers as it involved a death threat and disruption of learning at the campus,” he said.
Lawyer Edward Oonge also wanted the witness to confirm whether they knew a student leader named Mike Jacobs who allegedly recruited Mr Ochieng, of which they answered in the affirmative stating that he was one of the contestants in the SONU elections.
In an affidavit sworn on May 21 Ochieng states that he attended a series of meetings where the plot was being hatched and that he was a member of a gang that had also infiltrated the institution to cause chaos during last years SONU elections that turned chaotic prompting the university to be closed.
He said that he later developed cold feet when the assassination plot was unveiled.
“Towards the end of January 2016, I was invited to attend a meeting at a Nairobi hotel with the financiers,” Mr Ochieng’s affidavit reads.
He states that a politician(Kuria) told a Mr Bongo “to get two Probox vehicles for the mission to kill Prof Mbithi.”
Proceedings resume December 6.
