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No foul play in NIS boss Tom Adala’s death – top State pathologist
A postmortem on the body of senior National Intelligence Service (NIS) official Tom Adala has shown that he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. This confirms the suicide theory by police who said Adala, whose body was found at his Kirichwa home in Nairobi on Tuesday, June 4, shot himself in the head.
Until his death, Adala was an assistant director in charge of counter-violent extremism at the NIS headquarters in Ruaraka, Nairobi. He was 54 at the time of his death. Chief Government Pathologist Johansen Oduor, who conducted the examination at Lee Funeral Home, said a single bullet killed Adala. “It was a gunshot to the head that was self-inflicted,” Dr Oduor told the Nation yesterday.
Police said last week that Adala shot himself from the right side of the head with a pistol. The bullet, the report went on, exited through the left side. Police added that Adala had been battling depression. According to the police report, Adala’s nephew reported to Kilimani station that he had found him dead in the servants’ quarters. The nephew recounted that he last saw Adala as he retired to bed upstairs at 10 pm on Monday, June 3.
But he got concerned when his uncle failed to report to the table for breakfast by 9 am. The nephew said he went to Adala’s bedroom but did not find him. After doing checks around the compound, he stumbled on the body at the servants’ quarters, he added.
Detectives who arrived at the scene found a pistol with one spent cartridge and a magazine with three rounds, according to the police report. A spare magazine with 13 rounds was found in the bedroom. Police added that they found a suicide note in the bedroom, stating that nobody should be blamed for whatever had happened. Questions have, however, been raised on why no one heard the gunshot that night though the nephew and a watchman were in the compound. How and when Adala left the main house and ended up in the servants’ quarters remains a mystery too. It is also curious that he left the note in his bedroom and went to the servants’ quarters to kill himself.
Police reported about a black notebook, the size of a pocket diary, which Adala had reportedly written about his marital problems. A number of his friends and colleagues said he was depressed and that changes at his workplace had made the problem worse.
Adala’s workmates said the situation exacerbated when he was moved to his new station to head the counter-extremism violence unit, “which appeared like a demotion”. “We visited him at home when he failed to report to work after these staff changes. He wanted to resign but we prevailed on him not to,” a top NIS senior officer who worked closely with Adala told the Nation. But Adala’s employees at his restaurant in Kisumu insist he never showed any signs of depression or any other problem.
They described him as jovial, adding that he was planning to expand his Yurop Choma Zone Restaurant. However, they had noticed one curious thing. Although Adala regularly visited the restaurant every weekend, he had not done so in the last two months.
“It was strange that he used to visit every weekend from Nairobi, but this time round it took more than two months before he came back,” said Mr Jack Ralik, a chef, who had worked for him since Adala set up the hotel last October. But he had informed his workers that he would check in last weekend because he was working to expand the business.
“He wanted it to accommodate the growing number of customers. My boss was to come next week and had alerted us that we would have a meeting,” said Mr Fredrick Oduor, cashier at Yurop Choma Zone. The workers said whenever Adala was at the joint, he was generous to clients, freely mingling with crowds. “He would really spoil his customers and freely dished out money,” the cashier added. Adala was the son of Kenya’s first ambassador to Russia and the Luo Council of Elders (Ker) chairman Otuko Adala.
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