Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) George Kinoti has made a special request to the US regarding the ongoing probe into the death of Sergeant Kipyegon Kenei.
According to a report carried by The Standard on Wednesday, March 11, the agency boss requested the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) in Nairobi to join the investigations after claiming that the matter has been politicised too much.
Kinoti is seeking to have FBI carry out a parallel investigation in the matter largely because a US national is also a party in the matter.
“Kinoti wants an independent probe, not just to vindicate his homicide detectives who have concluded it was murder, but also to get those behind it," the publication quoted a source.
The American, Koziowski Stanley Bruno, served as a director of Eco Advanced Technologies LLC, which was to get a tender to supply firearms in the fraudulent Ksh39 billion scandal that former Sports CS Rashid Echesa is roped in.
Kenya has enjoyed a close relations with the FBI with the latest partnership coming in the form an initiative aimed at building the investigative capacity of a country “on the frontlines of terrorism”.
The country was chosen by the US s the site for the first US-funded Joint Terrorism Task Force that will be outside America.
The announcement came after President Uhuru Kenyatta and his US counterpart Donald Trump held a meeting at the beginning of February 2020.
In a press conference on Thursday, March 5, Kinoti disputed claims that Kenei committed suicide, arguing that the note found next to him did not bear his handwriting.
"The exit of the bullet made us come up with a hypothesis. To be fair, absolutely fair, that if it was suicide, we would have wished that he rests in peace and then ask ourselves why he had killed himself.
"So if he could have shot himself, no matter how we demonstrated the scene to satisfy the theory and hypothesis of suicide, with him bending - as you are going to see in our report - then automatically he would have fallen on his back," stated Kinoti.
"But what we found out was a stage-managed incident which is the opposite. If he was standing, definitely the blood matter and brain matter would have erupted into the ceiling, then the cartridge would have fallen on the right," he added.
On Monday, March 9, a report by Kenyans.co.ke disclosed that the agency boss had flown to the US to attend the FBI high-powered National Executive Institute (NEI) training program.
The three-week program is considered the bureau's premier executive training program and exclusively caters to heads of various security agencies. Kinoti is the only security chief from Africa selected to take part in this year's edition.
International participants are only invited by FBI legal attachés in US embassies around the world. Kinoti's involvement was confirmed by the US Embassy in Nairobi.
