Turkish journalist Nadire Mater is defending herself in court against against charges she insulted the Turkish military in her book. Their farms are said to have been given to top Government officials and Moi's Kalenjin tribesmen, an issue Fr. Kaiser strongly opposed. Kaiser was one of the people who gave evidence at the commission of inquiry into the tribal clashes. The findings have never been made public a year after they were handed over to President Moi.
Sources say that Fr.
Kaiser was in the process of helping the displaced file a civil suit that would have opened the Pandora's box on the saga. Meanwhile, U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation officials are in Nairobi investigating the death of the Catholic priest. Opposition politicians in Kenya likened the murder of Fr. Kaiser to previous political assassinations in Nairobi. I have never heard of a ruling party hawk dying under mysterious circumstances.