By Lucianne Limo
NAIROBI, KENYA: The High Court has freed the nephew to former Minister Raphael Tuju who had been arrested in connection with Tony Ogunda’s death.
The court ruled that there was no sufficient evidence to charge Cosmas Okoth Opondo with murder.
The late Ogunda was a lover to Tuju’s wife, Ruth Akinyi.
Okoth was produced before the High Court in Nairobi last Friday but police could not prefer murder charge against him saying the investigations were still incomplete.
They asked for seven days to complete investigations, which would determine whether or not to charge him.
Ogunda was found dead last week in house he shared with Okoth, at the offices of Tuju’s Hope Foundation. The two had been out drinking that night.
Okoth who was the first to discover the lifeless body reported to the police at Kilimani and recorded a statement as a witness.
Police started treating him as a witness after an autopsy conducted on Ogunda’s body by Government pathologist Peter Ndegwa at the City Mortuary revealed he suffered internal bleeding to his brain following a trauma to the head caused by a blunt object.
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