George Morara: A mysterious accident after 48 hour demand to produce Tom Mboya killer

George Morara, a straight-talking politician from Kisii region, died in a mysterious road accident on September 12, 1970.

The first time Member of Parliament was only 34 years old when he died – in what has been described as a ‘suspicious road accident’.  

At the time of his death, Morara was reportedly driving alone in his Peugeot 404 car – Registration No: KKZ 058.

The accident reportedly involved a police van, although others claimed it was a private lorry, making the whole story a mystery.

Sandy, the firstborn daughter, has been pushing for a closure.

The man from West Mugirango, a beneficiary of Tom Mboya airlift programme, died just nine months into the job. He was buried five days later on September 17 1970.

Morara is remembered as the man who gave the Kenyan government 48 hours to explain the whereabouts of the Nahashon Njenga – a man the government claimed it had successfully sent to the gallows for assassinating Tom Mboya on the streets of Nairobi on 5 July 1969.

Morara claimed he had seen Nahashon Njenga on the streets of Zambia – bending his elbow in a pub.

The West Mugirango legislature was part of the Social Welfare and Employment parliamentary committee that had visited Zambia in September 1970 – when he claimed he saw Njenga irrigating his throat at a Zambia liquor joint.

He was in Zambia in his capacity as the Chair of the Public Accounts Committee in Parliament.

Morara and a few others – would call a press conference at the Parliament building upon arrival from Lusaka – where Morara spoke about his jaw-dropping discovery in Zambia.

He would soon die in a mysterious car accident along the Kakamega – Kisumu highway while driving to his home constituency in Nyamira – after attending a meeting in Kakamega.

Morara may have died over five decades ago – but his spirit (many believe) may have found home in his grandson, Morara Kebaso, who has been denying the government a good sleep with his ‘people’s watchman activities.

“I come from a family of real warriors of this nation. My great-grandfather Senator John Kebaso was the first Senator of Kisii in the Majimbo System, and my grandfather George Kebaso was the MP for West Mugirango, and both, unfortunately, lost their lives in circumstances that cannot be a coincidence,” Morara Kebaso recently told JKL Live.

“My grandfather George Kebaso died in an assassination for questioning the death of Tom Mboya.

"My grandfather found the killer of Tom Mboya in a hotel in Zambia taking alcohol, and he was shocked,” Kebaso recently told JKL Live.

Today, as the family marks 54 years since his death, a lot of questions have remained unanswered.

The family through George Morara’s daughter, Sandy has spent years seeking to unravel the mystery of his death.

“My grandfather may have died, but he lives on, his spirit leaves on. Much as his death was tragic, we have knelt down and prayed with my family.

"I don’t think that merely because it happened to my grandfather, it will happen to me,” Young Kebaso said.