The late Makueni Senator Mutula Kilonzo. A government report has revealed what killed the eloquent senator in 2013. [Photo: kenya-today.com]
Massive bleeding caused by high blood pressure is what killed former Makueni Senator Mutula Kilonzo, a report reveals.
The government report released on Wednesday, four years after Mutula's death, reveals that Mutula died of massive haemorrhage into the chest and cranial cavity.
The report was presented during the hearing of an inquest at the Machakos Law Courts by Dr S W Mwangi, a general medical practitioner based in Nakuru.
“Mr Kilonzo died of massive haemorrhage into the chest and cranial cavity due to significantly elevated blood pressure due to several factors including but not limited to excessive ingestion of pseudoephedrine (nasal/sinus decongestant) in combination with caffeine,” said the report as quoted by Daily Nation.
Dr Mwangi told the inquest that the former lawmaker’s son, Senator Mutula Kilonzo Junior, and a farm worker, Mulei Mulwa, said he had not complained of any illness on April 16, 2013.
He also explained to the trial magistrate how he found Mutula's body in the bedroom where he examined it, four hours after he was reported dead.
There was foaming at the mouth and blood flowing from both the nose and mouth to the right side of the head, he told the court.
Dr Mwagi also noted that the senator had vomited in his bedroom before he died.
The inquest proceeds on September 26.