Retired Nyahururu Catholic Bishop Luigi Paiaro sanctifies a commemoration cross for the late Father John Kaiser during the memorial mass marking the 16th anniversary of his death at Morendnat Junction in Naivasha, Nakuru County on August 20, 2016. Father Kaiser, an outspoken critic of the then government, was on August 24, 2000 found dead at Morendat Junction on the Nakuru- Nairobi highway with a rifle by his side. PHOTO | SULEIMAN MBATIAH
He recalls that it had been a chilly night that was unusually in only one regard, several speeding vehicles had disturbed the calm of the night keeping him in a heightened sense of anxiety filled with trepidation. It did not take much to keep him alert and wide-eyed. “I did not want to take any chance. I remained awake throughout a night that was unusually terrifying." he recollected.
It occured to him, they were no longer interested in his witness statement bit their line of interrogations was geared towards fixing him into taking the fall as the killer of the beloved but controversial priest.
it will be the first time that the church will be holding a mass at the place where the body was found.
The night of August 24, 2000 is one Mr Paul Omuga - a night security guard at a Naivasha flower farm - will not soon forget. It was the night the story of his life, for a fleeting moment in time, crossed that of the late Father John Anthony Kaiser.
Mr Omuga had just stepped out of his work station when he stumbled on the late priest's body.
