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Attempts by the prosecution to place Jonah Anguka at Dr Ouko's home and scene of murder mastered no witnesses to collaborate the theory.
Trial judge Justice Fidahussein Abdullah ruled out as 'practically impossible' that Anguka could have murdered Dr Ouko, but days before he delivered his ruling he uttered the suicidal comments during a school function:
"The judge said, innocent people are in jail while the guilty are out here," said Anguka, adding that later Justice Fidahussein was taken ill and died before delivering his judgment and being a Muslim, no postmortem was carried out on to determine cause of death.
Later, Justice Daniel Anganyanya absolved Johan Anguka who says: "I had no reason to kill the minister. I had no resources to carry out and, I did not have the power to cover it up perpetually."
Investigations into the Ouko murder ground to a halt. Anguka says it took the former Prime Minister, Raila Odinga's family to flee the country. "I left Kenya for Uganda where I was given a new passport and visa. The embassy official stood up, handed me my passport back and told me, "welcome to America!"
