At his trial Jonah Anguka had based his defence on ''technically sufficient alibi`` for the night of February 12-13 (that he was with his nephew having a massage) and on his close friendship with Robert Ouko, and in Absolute Power on a very detailed account of where he was, when and why. For Professors Cohen and Odhiambo however it was the ''multiple`` and ''fertile silences`` of the book that told ''a stronger story than perhaps Jonah Anguka had intended. `` Ultimately for Cohen and Odhiambo it was what Anguka did not say that was as important, if not more telling, than what he did say in Absolute Power,
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