It’s 47 years since the murder of JM Kariuki.
Those mentioned as having been involved were never made to account for their actions as they all professed their innocence.
The only person who admitted hisbrole in the plot was former Commissioner of Police Ben Gethi.
He was the one who lured Kariuki out of the Hilton Hotel and into the hands of his Killers.
It seems he was being haunted by a guilt conscience since he was also a close friend of JM and his family at the time of his disappearance.
Before his death in 1994, Gethi made a startling confession to JM’s sister, Rahab, then a secretary in the office of the local Government Minister,Mr Moses Mudavadi and invited her to a meeting.
The meeting took place at Gethi’s Rosslyn estate home on Limuru Road. Gethi began by apologizing that it had taken him years t “open up” to the family.
He then proceeded to give his version of JM’s murder and explained that he had been ordered to look for the MP and deliver him to a security team investigation the OTC bomb blast.
Gethi told the two women that he delivered JM to the Interrogating team and left,and that the next time he was JM,he was bathed in blood and was groaning in agony.
He saw the MP being hurled into boot of waiting car by Mr Pius Kibathi and two other men. Supervising the operation was a former Mau Mau leader Waruhiu iyole (General China) who was now serving as the Deputy Director National Youth Service.
Gethi insisted that bhr had no idea where Kibathi and his team tool JM and only came to learn about the murder after the body was found at Olosho Oibor, a forest at the foot of Ngong Hills.
At the time of JM’s disappearance Gethi was serving as the GSU Commandant. He later rose to become police commissioner in the Moi Government but was sacked soon after the abortive coup by soldiers of the Kenya Airfaorce in August,1982. He was held for close to ba year during the coup investigations and later released without any charges
