Senator Mutula Kilonzo Jnr narrated the chilling moments when he received a text message from their farm manager at about 11.30 am - his father former Makueni Senator Mutula Kilonzo had died.

The lawmaker relived the events of the day when he walked into his father’s room and found him lying on his back. White froth was coming out of his mouth.

He lifted his father's hand, it was cold.

The door was open, suggesting a person or persons had been in the room earlier. The scene appeared arranged, perhaps as a warning, he implied.

Kilonzo said his father's phone showed he had sent messages at about 9pm and also read a book before going to bed.

He revisited how his father died of poisoning, saying,

“I have seen the pain of death…I have seen what happens when someone gives you poison. May it not happen to any other persons and may it not happen to any other person.”

Prodded by the Star on who might have poisoned the maverick politician, the senator revealed that his father was made to ingest more than 12 tablets for controlling blood pressure.

“The fundamental question is not who, but how they managed to make him ingest more than 12 tablets of the ephedrine-lased white pellets,” Kilonzo Jnr said, adding that his father's bathtub "had vomit of his entire dinner".

A popular carbonated drink, whose container was retrieved from the kitchen, is believed to have been used as the catalyst that caused the rupture of the senator’s veins and capillaries.

“He never took soda or carbonated drinks,” Kilonzo Jnr said adding that he found his father “lying in a manner that would lead one to suspect the scene was arranged".

He said the initial post mortem confirmed that his father died of excessive bleeding - in all parts.

“I was shown pictures of his brain. The pathologists were shocked at the excessive bleeding,” he said of the poisoning question.

No person has been charged with the murder, which is among the piles of unresolved killings that continue to stalk the country.

Police at the height of the incident questioned Mutula’s farm manager, a cook, supervisor and a housekeeper.

The cook, Jnr revealed, died mysteriously. Samples collected from the scene were interfered with while en-route to Germany.

British pathologist Prof Calder Ian Madison, who flew to Kenya at the family’s request, refused to sign the autopsy report.

He, however, stated that the senator's death was caused by ingestion of a substance that caused catastrophic haemorrhage.

The family’s hope for justice following the politician’s death appears to be waning by the day. “In my evidence at the inquiry, I was sure it would not lead to anything meaningful,” Jnr said.

Then Director of Criminal Investigations Ndegwa Muhoro said they could only build a probe on a doctor’s report. “It could be different if it was a matter of an attack where injuries are visible.”

Kilonzo Jnr says what is left for the family is carry on after his father.

- The Star