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Police ‘Withholding’ Mutula Kilonzo’s Death Report

Theย reportย on Makueni Senator Mutula Kilonzoโ€™s death is ready, but is being withheld at the CID headquarters, the Nation has learnt.

Some of the pathologists involved in the post morterm on Sunday said they had finalised their work and submitted theirย reportย to theย Criminalย Investigations Department and could not understand why it had not been released.

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Government Pathologist Johannssen Oduol said he was equally waiting for theย reportย before it could be made public.

โ€œThe findings are with the policeโ€ฆI am equally waiting for it. As a matter of procedure, they have to give it to me first before I can release it,โ€ Dr Oduol said.

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Anotherย doctorย conversant with the issue said initial investigations from 100 samples from various parts of body tested at the Government Chemist in Nairobi had shown no signs of poisoning.

However, he said more tests were conducted after discovery of traces of two drugs in the blood. The two drugs, sildenafil citrate andย ephedrineย hydrochloride are used for asthma andย high blood pressure treatment.

He said these developments resulted in hair samples being taken for tests to rule out poisoning with agents like polonium-210 which was used in the alleged killing of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Russian defector Alexander Litvinenko.

The seven pathologists performing the autopsy reportedly found he โ€œhad serious internal bleedingโ€ characteristic with a poisoning before he died.

Aย doctorย said the internal bleeding and a finding that all his internal organs were intact had baffled them.

According to theย doctor, the first finding during post mortem was in the chest cavity where both lungs were found to have been โ€œfloating in blood.โ€

The source said pathologists then wanted to know whether the arteries or the heart had been raptured to establish any other source of the bleeding but found none โ€œas all organs were intact.โ€-nation.co.ke

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