NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 11 — Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has sharply criticized former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua over allegations surrounding the death of former Emurua Dikirr MP Johana Ng’eno, accusing him of exploiting the deaths of prominent Kenyans for political mileage.

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Murkomen dismissed Gachagua’s claims that contaminated jet fuel may have caused the helicopter crash that killed Ng’eno as “made-up, cooked-up nonsense” and challenged the Democracy for the Citizens Party (DCP) leader to present the alleged intelligence to investigators.

Gachagua raised the allegations on Tuesday while delivering an accountability statement and performance audit of President William Ruto’s four years in office, calling for investigations into what he described as unresolved high-profile deaths.

He claimed to have intelligence indicating that fuel used by the helicopter that crashed after dropping Ng’eno at Endebess had allegedly been transported from Lodwar and questioned the circumstances under which it was supplied.

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According to Gachagua, Kenya Revenue Authority officials at Eldoret noticed an “unusual car” carrying the fuel and briefly arrested and questioned its driver.

He further alleged that the officials and police at Eldoret airstrip were instructed from Nairobi to release the driver.

“It is this fuel that caused the chopper not to pick up altitude; that is why the pilot first came down and tried again to pick up altitude,” Gachagua claimed.

He demanded answers from Murkomen and called on the Kenya Airports Authority to release CCTV footage from the facility on the day of the incident.

But Murkomen strongly rejected the allegations, accusing Gachagua of reviving Ng’eno’s death months later as part of his political campaign.

“Using the death of Hon. Ng’eno to score cheap political attention ahead of your visit to Emurua-Dikirr is both pathetic and unfortunate,” Murkomen said.

📰 Source: Capital FM Kenya