Revealed: Police Used Prisoners To Torture Albert Ojwang At Central Police Station

Three more suspects have been arrested in connection with the murder of X influencer and teacher Albert Ojwang, as more details emerge on the case, which has drawn significant nationwide uproar.

The suspects, revealed to be inmates detained at Central Police Station, were present during the arrival of Ojwang, who was transferred from Homa Bay, over 350 kilometres from Kenya's capital city.

The trio, Gin Abwao, Collins Ireri and Brian Mwaniki, who were arrested by a team from the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) investigating the matter, claim they were directed by police to torture Ojwang before he died in police custody.

The three are currently being detained in police stations located in Kilimani, Muthangari and Kileleshwa. It is further alleged that police officers had used the inmates to torture Ojwang to death before being released mysteriously.

They are expected to be arraigned in court on Monday, June 15, alongside Central Police Station Officer Commanding Station (OCS) Samson Talaam, who was arrested on June 13 and detained at Lang'ata Police Station.

The latest developments come even as IPOA continues to obtain CCTV footage, found to have been tampered with to conceal crucial evidence, with the probe revealing that a large portion of the footage has been discovered and is being considered of great interest in the ongoing investigations.

At the same time, IPOA is on the hunt for police officers captured on CCTV, having brought the body of Ojwang to Mbagathi Hospital at 1.35 am on June 8.

Three officers were captured on video exiting their vehicle, with two of them briefly speaking before proceeding toward the hospital's casualty department. During this time, Ojwang remained unattended in the rear of the police vehicle, receiving no immediate medical assistance.

At approximately 1:37 a.m., the officers were observed outside the hospital premises, one of them was spotted receiving a phone call. It was not until 1:46 a.m. that two officers returned with a stretcher. They took about 12 minutes to transfer Ojwang onto it.

The officers remained in the casualty area for roughly 10 minutes, and at 2:11 a.m., surveillance footage shows them wheeling Ojwang’s body out of the hospital. His remains were placed in the back of the police Land Cruiser and transported to City Mortuary, where his father, Mzee Meshack Opiyo, later identified them.

Earlier, Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua pleaded with the international community to intervene in the wanton abductions, torture and extrajudicial killings in the President William Ruto regime, amidst uproar surrounding the murder of Ojwang.

Speaking during a church service at Kagio Holy Spirit Church in Mwea, Kirinyaga County, Gachagua claimed that the murder of Ojwang was just one out of the many cases of brutal torture and extrajudicial killings carried out by what he claimed was a squad set up following Ruto's orders. 

That squad, he continued, was seconded to the National Intelligence Service (NIS) and specialised in abductions, torture and killings as well as cover-ups for such crimes.

"This issue of Albert Ojwang is just the tip of the iceberg. Hundreds of young people have been tortured to death by a special squad of 101 officers that was set up on the instructions of William Ruto and seconded to NIS under Noordin Haji, and trained highly on abductions, torture, killings and cover up. William Ruto cannot run away from these deaths. He is responsible, and Kenyans will punish him for that," he went on.

"That case of Ojwang, there is a cover-up. IPOA, Ruto has planted his people. The IG is his ally, even the DCI boss went to Parliament and lied that he was taken to the hospital when he was alive and died at the hands of doctors. CCTV has revealed that he arrived dead, the officers sat for 24 minutes just waiting because he's already dead."