KISUMU,
Wednesday.
A BRITISH detective whose evidence is expected to shed light on last
year's murder of a senior Kenyan politician was in a secret location in
the west of the country today, waiting to appear at an inquiry.
President Daniel arap Moi called in British detectives after Foreign
Minister Robert Ouko's body was found mutilated and charred near his
home in western Kenya soon after he called for an investigation into
high-level corruption.
His murder in February 1990 triggered a political crisis for Moi's
Government after a police report suggested the death may have been
suicide. Anti-Government riots followed.
A Kenyan official said today that recently-retired Scotland Yard
officer John Troon was ''hidden until he is ready to appear before the
commission of inquiry''.
Mr Troon's report, which took seven months to compile, has never been
made public.--Reuter.
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