Makueni senator Mutula Kilonzo Junior has said that he knows nothing about the tampering of his late father’s autopsy samples.
Speaking at CID Headquarters on Tuesday, Kilonzo said the samples may have been tampered with during the transfer to the UK, and not at their home.
“Going by the private pathologist’s report, my father died of a catastrophic haemorrhage due to something he had ingested in his food,” he said.
Kilonzo Junior recorded a statement at the CID headquarters after Director of Public Prosecutions Keriako Tobiko ordered investigations into the matter.
His sister Kethi Kilonzo did not arrive as expected .
The then Makueni Senator Mutula Kilonzo died at his ranch in Maanzoni, Machakos county in April 2013.
Detectives started probing the death summoned Kilonzo Junior after finding out that the body had been moved and some samples taken from the home. Mutula Kilonzo Jr was the first at the scene but had declined to record a statement pending the government pathologist’s report.
The pathologist, Dr Johansen Oduor, was allegedly reluctant to submit his findings until the UK examiner hired by the family to conduct a parallel post mortem submitted his.
Prof Ian Calder, an expert on sudden death hired by Mutula’s family, claimed in March last year that the toxicology specimens given to him were “opened and possibly contaminated”.
Calder and another expert – Dr Patterson – were to find the actual cause of death after the preliminary post mortem concluded it could not be ascertained pending more tests.
Calder had already concluded that Mutula Kilonzo died of “multi-organ haemorrhage due to possible coagulation deficiency”.
He however says he is unable to make a final conclusion on what exactly caused this deficiency.