At the start of a public inquest into Dr Gakuru’s death on Wednesday, three witnesses led by the former governor’s private personal assistant Josphat Mwangi Maina and two body guards, Corporal Peter Mwaniki Maigua and Corporal Samson Lekol, said the governor stayed at the scene of crash for more than 40 minutes bleeding profusely.
An inquest is looking into the circumstances that caused the governor’s death. A tweet has revealed that the state has lined up 20 witnesses in the inquest of the Governors death.
Public inquest into death of former Nyeri Governor Wahome Gakuru who died in a road crash in 2017 starts, State lines up 20 witnesses.
— K24 TV (@K24Tv) January 16, 2019
In the crash that happened at Makenji, a few kilometres to Thika Town, Dr Gakuru’s driver, Samson Kinyanjui, lost control of the vehicle – a Mercedes Mercedes E250 – and rammed into a guard rail which tore trough the car, entering through the front and exiting at the rear.
Ambulances and police officers failed to rescue the former Nyeri Governor Wahome Gakuru from the wreckage of his car following a crash at Kabati in Murang’a along the Nyeri-Nairobi highway on November 7, 2017, witnesses have told a court.
The witness, who was in the governor’s chase car, said it was misty throughout the journey from Nyeri town and the road was slippery and that it was sloppy at the area where the crash happened.