The powerman at AG’s office

In his complaint letter to Mr Muchemi, Mr Tobiko recounted that on October 7, 2005, he had received a letter dated October 5 and signed by deputy SG Muthoni Kimani, authorising Mr Onyango to travel to Ghana as part of the Kenyan delegation to the Accra meeting between October 16 and 20 of the same year.

Was baffled

“I was baffled,” Mr Tobiko says in the letter dated October 11. “I still am. At no time was I requested as head of this department to nominate the said or other officer to attend the meeting. Even after your office or whoever nominated him made that decision, I was not accorded the basic courtesy of being informed about it.”

Before his removal, Mr Tobiko’s predecessor had been engaged in a long turf war with Mr Muchemi. On October 24, 2004 , Mr Murgor wrote to Mr Muchemi accusing the administration of blocking a State counsel, Mr Edward Mwangi, from travelling to Europe with a team investigating the Anglo Leasing scandal.

“Despite the authority given to Mr Mwangi, the trip was frustrated by your office/officers,” Mr Murgor wrote. The Anglo Leasing investigation is of such great national and international importance that the AG had directed that a prosecutor accompany the probe team.

Mr Murgor’s complaints continued into 2005. On January 18 the same year, he wrote again to Mr Muchemi after Mr Oriri Onyango was sent to the Netherlands. “This is to seek your explanation for the interference with my department,” Mr Murgor wrote. The two were still at loggerheads when Mr Murgor’s tenure came to a dramatic end.