KenyaForum

Why is the murder of Kenya’s Foreign Minister on 13 February 1990 still an important matter for discussion 22 years later as we approach the anniversary of that unhappy event? What really happened and who really murdered him? This week the Kenya Forum begins a five part series of articles (interspersed with articles on other […]

KENYA’S DIRECTOR OF CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS ISSUES STERN DIRECTIVE The Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) has issued a directive to all detectives and county police divisions in Kenya to further investigate unsolved murders and robberies, and ordered that all shootings must be reported to the National Police Service Headquarters. Many crimes in Kenya go unreported, many […]

By Martin Minns BUT THERE IS NO MYSTERY… Zablon Agalo Obonyo, the Administration Police guard who was attached to the Koru home of Dr Robert Ouko, Kenya’s Minister of Foreign Affairs who was murdered on 13 February 1990, has died at the age of 90. He will be buried this afternoon in the Kapuonja Sub […]

The much-awaited documentary series Who Killed Dr Robert Ouko and Why?, a major new investigation into the, to date, unsolved murder of the former Foreign Affairs Minister in February 1990, premiered yesterday evening on Citizen TV. The six-part documentary series will continue running tonight at 9:30 pm, until Tuesday next week. The production of ‘Murder […]

The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) interview panel, in the process of selecting Kenya’s next Chief Justice, have been giving one applicant for the post, Court of Appeal Judge Alnashir Visram, a hard time over a judgment he made sixteen years ago which resulted in the largest award in damages for defamation in Kenyan legal history, […]