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Ann Wanyoro was Tuesday charged in a Kiambu court with aiding a suicide. Ms Ann Wanyoro, who was arraigned before Kiambu chief magistrate John Oyiengo, was charged that on diverse dates between November 23 to 26 last year at Mokongeni in Thika, Kiambu county she helped Paul Magu to kill himself. She denied the charge and her lawyer Waithera Mwangi requested the court to release her on bail.
However, homicide officer Gilbert Kitalia, who is investigating the matter, in a sworn affidavit sought the court’s permission to continue holding Ann Wanyoro in custody, arguing that the suspect might interfere with investigations if released.
“There is a possibility that more suspects linked to the murder of the five family members and dumping of the body of Lydia Magu at Paradise Lost will be arrested and jointly charged with the first suspect,” Mr Kitalia said.
The officer also told the court that they have credible intelligence information that unknown people have been visiting the rural home of Ann Wanyoro in Mang’u and her residence at Makongeni in Thika and they may harm her.
He added that as the investigations continue, they are likely to prefer more charges on her, adding that the charges she is facing attract life imprisonment if she is found guilty so if released on bail she might run.
Kitalia informed the court that they discovered that Paul Magu had appointed someone to hold several properties in trust, some of which are yet to be traced and Ann Wanyoro has knowledge of where the properties are located and might interfere with the probe.
But her lawyer accused the police of laxity in their investigations as they have taken 39 days to conduct investigations while still holding Ann Wanyoro.
Waithera asked the officer to produce enough evidence there have been people at the suspect’s rural home and in her residence who are out to harm her, adding that the suspect will not run if she is released. The magistrate is set to make a ruling a today as to whether the suspect will be released on bail and supplied with charge sheet and witness statements.
Pathologists said an autopsy carried out on the body of Fidel Odinga on Tuesday was unable to determine what killed him.
The government and family pathologists said that the first rounds of tests were unsuccessful saying that they will embark on a second round of tests Fidel Odinga who was the eldest son of former Prime Minister Raila Odinga passed was found dead at his Karen home Sunday morning.
The inconclusive results after examination of the body of Fidel Odinga by government and family pathologists at Lee Funeral Home from 7.30am to7pm, when a briefing was made, will prolong the agony of family and friends.
The postmortem was done by Dr DorothyNjeru, the lead government pathologist, in collaboration with family pathologists Dr Emily Rogena and Dr Bessie Byakika. The Chief Government Pathologist Johannsen Oduor supervised the exercise.
“We carried out the postmortem in two parts: body examination and body dissection. However we were unable to come up with the cause of death. We will now proceed to laboratory analysis to try and analyse the samples collected and the process begins now. Once we conclude we will give a comprehensive report,” Dr Njeru explained.
Rogena added: “We are in complete agreement with my colleague that it was completely impossible to determine the cause of death. We undertook an examination of several samples collected.”
Rogena explained they had carried out toxicology and histology examinations but could not determine the cause of death. “We call this examination toxicology and histology in the scientific language. We have taken a number of samples to establish cause of death. As of now, we have agreed nothing tangible was found in the body of Fidel Odinga to explain cause of death,” added Dr Rogena.
Journalists had earlier on Tuesday camped at the Lee Funeral Home awaiting a verdict on the cause of death of Fidel Odinga, however, the results were not made public until the statement later in the evening.
At around 11 00 am, the sister to the former Prime Minister Ruth Odinga who is also the Deputy Governor of Kisumu County arrived at the Lee Funeral Home accompanied by some friends. She later left the venue after a few minutes.
Tanzanian actress Wema Sepetu has sold the car she received as a birthday gift from her ex-boyfriend, musician Diamond Platinumz. Diamond acquired the Nissan Murano vehicle for his then boo during her birthday late last year.
He also threw her a star-studded birthday bash.
WemaSepetu says she intends to start the year 2015 afresh and focus on what she earns from her sweat.
Their relationship hit rock bottom late last year and Diamond moved on quickly to start off a new relationship with Ugandan socialite Zari Hassan.
But Wema Sepetu has also come out to say that she has no hard feelings about Diamond’s new relationship with Uganda’s socialite Zari Hassan.
Wema Sepetu spoke for the first time about the issue earlier on in the week during a radio interview in Dar es Salaam, just after returning to Tanzania from Ghana where she was shooting a movie.
“It didn’t work between us and I wish him all the best in his new relationship. They look good together,” she said.
Diamond and Wema Sepetu have dated for over three years until they broke up a couple of months ago.
41-year-old Fidel Odinga is said to have been an easygoing person, who never found fault with his friends. He had established businesses and cut a niche for himself among his peers. Fidel was known to have invested in petroleum and real estate, and had an office block in Nairobi’s Kilimani area.
Fidel Odinga, though, is said to have been very active on the social scene. He frequented many popular joints in most urban centres across the country, but mainly in Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu. He loved his whiskey brands and would often find his way into the news for both wrong and right reasons.
In June last year, he was fined Sh30,000 by a Nairobi court after he pleaded guilty to drink-driving. One of the friends with him on Saturday night was Mr Robert Kimuchu Gichuru, son of former Kenya Power Managing Director Samuel Gichuru.
In September, Mr Gichuru was charged in court with killing a cyclist through dangerous driving on a Nairobi street. The Range Rover he was driving belonged to Fidel.
Growing up, Fidel Odinga attended Consolata Primary in Westlands before proceeding to Mbeji Academy in Siaya County for his High School education from 1989 to 1992, a school which belonged to the late Thomas Ogembo, founder of the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology.
He then proceeded to India for his post-secondary education, where he stayed for one year before transferring to Washington DC in the US. He completed his studies and continued living and working there.
He returned home just before the 2002 elections, after which Narc formed the Government.
In July 28 2012, Fidel Odinga married an Eritrean beauty Lwam Gatchew Bekele, who has stayed clear of the limelight. This was after divorcing his first wife Veronica Wanjiru over what close friends termed as irreconcilable differences.
The two had been married at a colourful wedding ceremony held in 2007. His second wedding, though, was closely guarded and devoid of the colour and pomp that had characterized his first wedding. The wedding took place at the Orthodox Church in Nairobi.
Although in the last general elections Fidel Odinga was widely expected to contest for the Lang’ata/Kibra parliamentary seat, Fidel chose not. However, word has it that he was expected to take a plunge into politics in 2017.
When was the last time you read a book? And an academic one doesn’t count, God knows it’s all about cramming and that which we can’t cram, a trusty “mwakenya” saves the day.
I am talking about feeding your mind type of reading.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg just set a pretty ambitious New Year’s resolution, reading a new book each week for the entire year. This is coming from a person who is so busy that small decisions like choosing what to wear or what to eat for breakfast could be tiring and consume energy, and he doesn’t want to waste time on.
“I really want to clear my life to make it so that I have to make as few decisions as possible about anything except how to best serve this community,” Zuckerberg said, after clarifying that he had “multiple same shirts.”Source Businessinsider.
So it got me thinking, what do our local billionaire s feed their minds with? Thanks to goggle and Capital fm I got to find out what kind of books Chris Kirubi has read and has drawn valuable lessons from.
Who knows one of these books might just make you the next billionaire.
1. Screw It, Let’s Do It – Richard Branson
2. Play to win in Business and in Life – Donald Trump
3. The Leader with No Title – Robin Sharma
4. The Monk who sold His Ferrari – Robin Sharma
5. The Corporate Sufi – Azim Jamal
6. Rich Dad, Poor Dad – Robert Kiyosaki
7. The Leadership Imperative: What Innovative Business Leaders are doing today to create the successful companies of tomorrow – Robert Heller
Raila Odinga’s family has set Saturday January 10 as the burial date for their son Fidel Odinga who died on Sunday. He will be buried in Bondo at his parent’s rural home.
Fidel Odinga’s body will be removed Thursday for a requiem mass at Coptic Church in Nairobi on Thursday afternoon.
The body of Fidel Odinga will then be returned to Lee funeral home for an overnight stay before being flown to Kisumu and Bondo for another stay before final funeral rights at his father’s Opoda farm. Funeral committee is meeting at the Karen home of the Cord leader.
Earlier on Monday, the post-mortem examination to determine the cause of death of Cord leader Raila Odinga’s eldest child, Fidel Odinga was carried out. Fidel, 41, was found dead in his bed on Sunday morning by his wife, Lwam Getachew Bekele.
On Sunday, CID Director Ndegwa Muhoro was among the first government officials to arrive at Fidel’s home, together with forensic detectives.
The government’s chief pathologist, Dr Johansen Oduor, was also present as was a family pathologist who could not be immediately identified.
They all spent hours examining the scene where the young Odinga died. It was not until 6.15pm that the body was taken to the Lee Funeral Home.
Kilimani Police Station CID boss Peter Mungai said three people had recorded statements about Fidel’s movements.
He said several people, including Fidel’s friends, would be interrogated to establish exactly what happened.
As the country mourns the sudden, unclear death of CORD Leader Raila Odinga’s first born son, Fidel Odinga, new details are emerging on how the young man fondly called ‘General’ met his untimely death. Here is a blow by blow account:
Saturday, noon.
On Saturday around midday, Fidel Odinga leaves his house situated at the Bel Air Country Homes along Miotoni Road in Karen. He goes to meet his father Raila Odinga at their home to wish him New Year tidings since they have not met since January 1.
At his father’s residence, Fidel meets Senator Dan Mwazo and his wife. They interact briefly before Fidel excuses himself.
Saturday, 2pm
Fidel Odinga leaves his father’s house – which is situated at the end of Karen near the border with Kajiado County – and drives to Ruby Restaurant in Kilimani. He meets with one of his friends, Tom Alila, who is in the company of COTU Secretary General Francis Atwoli, Muhoroni MP Otieno K’Oyoo and former Lugari MP Cyrus Jirongo.
They hold a brief chat that lasts about five minutes before Fidel excuses himself. He leaves to pick up someone near the Somali Embassy.
Saturday 4pm
Fidel Odinga leaves Kilimani for Westlands, where he joins his friend Robert Gichuru for a late lunch at the popular Art Café, Oval place. After the lunch, he leaves to have drinks with his friends at an exclusive club called Capital Club.
Saturday 11.30pm
Fidel Odinga leaves Capital Club after a friend identified as Barnabas Temere, a Ugandan national, invites him for a drink at the Sankara Hotel. Sankara is in Westlands. At Sankara, Fidel is joined by Mabior Garang, the son of the late South Sudan leader John Garang, and a few other friends. Fidel and his friends, take drinks until around 2.30am on Sunday morning.
Sunday 2.30am
Fidel Odinga calls for a taxi to drive him home. Apparently, he feels drunk to drive. Two cab drivers from Smart Fellas Taxis arrive; one drives his Range Rover and the other follows them to his Miotoni Road residence in Karen. The Range Rover, which was surrounded by the police tape, was in the parking lot of Fidel’s residence Sunday afternoon, and still had its parking lights on.
Sunday morning
Fidel Odinga arrives home and rings the kitchen bell. He apologizes to her for waking her up so early and heads to the guest wing to sleep. Apparently, he does not want to disturb his wife and child who are in their bedroom.
Sunday 6.30am
Fidel Odinga’s wife checks on her husband. At first, she thinks he is asleep. A short-while later, she attempts to wake him up and discovers he is dead. She then calls in her mother in-law Ida.
Sunday Before 7am
Ida and Raila Odinga arrive at Fidel’s home. They call for an ambulance. A Red Cross ambulance arrives but upon first aid examination, the medics inform the distraught parents that their son, Fidel has passed away.
An eight-hour autopsy is then conducted on the body by a team of forensic pathologists led by the Chief Government Pathologist Johansen Oduor at the house.
Sunday Evening
The body of Fidel Odinga is moved to the Lee Funeral Home last evening.
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Cord leader Raila Odinga’s son Fidel Odinga is dead. Some reports say Fidel Odinga, the eldest son of Cord leader Raila Odinga, was on Sunday morning found dead after a night out with friends.
Apparently, the lifeless body of Fidel Odinga son was found in his bed early Sunday.
Other sources indicated that Fidel died at Nairobi Hospital where he was rushed by his wife last night. It is not yet known what killed him.
On Saturday Fidel skipped family lunch to meet up with friends it is reported. He then went out in the evening with some friends and came home at around 1am, Fidel Odinga is said to have had breathing problems and was rushed in an ambulance to Nairobi Hospital where he died.
