Information, Communication, and Digital Economy Cabinet Secretary nominee William Kabogo has denied any involvement in The late Mercy Keino’s death citing that he was just at the wrong place at the wrong time.
University of Nairobi student Mercy Keino was found dead on June 17, 2011, after allegedly attending a party organized by Kabogo.
Kabogo has however, denied knowing Mercy Keino in person stating that the case of Mercy came to him two weeks after she was buried.
“The honorable member has said that it is alleged that I had invited people to a party. Mr. Speaker, I want to say that that is not true. This is just a situation where you find yourself at a place at the wrong time,” stated Kabogo.
“The issue of Mercy Keino came to me two weeks after she was buried and even if I had met her the following day after that incident at the hotel, I would not have recognized her,”he added.
Kabogo further detailed that an inquiry was done in 2012 by the Magistrates Court, where he and his co-accused were acquitted.
According to Kabogo, the court proved beyond reasonable doubt that Mercy lost her life after being hit by a vehicle.
He stated,”Suffice to say, Mr Speaker, an inquest was conducted in 2012 at Milimani Margistrate’s Court that took about a year and a half and all persons of interest were invited including those persons that had not been there including myself. I was cross-examined for six days and was exonerated but the judgment of that court. The court made a finding that Mercy Keino was a victim of a hit and run by a truck and that matter rested there, ”
“There were videos played of the scene of the incident and when I was speaking to the father of Mercy Keino at the inquest I was urging him not to watch those videos because they were videos that were not very nice for a parent. I sympathize with the family of Mercy Keino and may her soul rest in peace,” Kabogo added.
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