A compassionate Daniel Moi and former Attorney General Charles Njonjo once donated blood for an MP drugged by a fake doctor in India.
The incident occurred in 1975 when Dagoretti MP Johnstone Muthiora visited India.
According to Sunday Nation, Muthiora was notified by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of an invitation for a private visit to India.
It was a strange offer because he was the only MP to be invited and the request did not extend to his spouse.
During the second week, while visiting the southern India town of Madras, he started complaining of a sharp pain in the shoulder.
He alerted the hotel management, who tried to raise the hotel doctor on phone but in vain forcing the receptionist to reach for another doctor.
The man who did not look like a doctor mixed some concoctions and injected the MP with what he called a painkiller.
Muthiora would later reveal he only accepted to be injected because he was in such great pain and desperate for anything that would ease his suffering.
Two days later, the MP complained of an even sharper pain and was taken to a heart specialist who gave him medication but recommended further check-up.
At that point, the MP cut short his journey and returned home, where he was admitted to Nairobi Hospital.
On the second day, his kidneys failed and started vomiting blood.
Specialists flown in from London indicated he was suffering from septicemia (blood poisoning) and decided to have the MP undergo a massive blood transfusion.
Among the blood donors for the emergency exercise were AG Njonjo and Vice President Moi.
The frantic efforts did not help as Muthiora went into a coma and later died.
To this day, the mystery of the MP death’s has never been resolved
