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Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has demanded that the British police agency, Scotland Yard, and the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) be invited to investigate the death of former Emurua Dikirr Member of Parliament Johana Ng'eno.
It comes as Ms Mary Temas, the mother of the former MP, demanded answers from the government on the cause of the helicopter crash that also claimed five other people.
Mr Gachagua, the Democracy for Citizens Party (DCP) leader, said the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA) could not be expected to conduct an independent investigation into the incident.
Speaking on Friday at the home of the former MP in Mogondo village, Emurua Dikirr Constituency, Narok County, Mr Gachagua reiterated that senior security chiefs in the country could not be expected to oversee an independent probe into the cause of the crash.
In the February 28 helicopter crash in Chepkiep village, Mosop Constituency, Nandi County, those who died were MP Johana Ng'eno, George Were (pilot), Nick Kosgei (photojournalist), Amos Kipngetich Rotich (an officer with the Kenya Forest Service), Carlos Robert Kibet Keter (a teacher) and Wycliff Kiprotich Rono (a protocol officer at Narok County Government).
"We cannot trust the Kenyan police and other departments with this matter," Mr Gachagua said, asking President William Ruto to invite the British and American investigators.
Scotland Yard was involved in investigations into the murder of British citizen and tourist Julie Ward in September 1988 at Kenya's Maasai Mara Game Reserve, and the killing of Foreign Affairs minister Robert Ouko in 1990.
Mr Gachagua said several issues had been raised in relation to the helicopter crash, but no answers were forthcoming from relevant government investigating agencies.