The Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) now says that the CCTV systems at the Officer Commanding (OCS) Central Police Station in Nairobi have been interfered with, even as investigations into the murder of blogger Albert Ojwang’ continues.
According to IPOA Vice-Chairperson Anne Wanjiku, the authority’s investigating officers seized the CCTV DVR at the station, which is a crime scene in the murder investigations and forwarded it for forensic analysis.
But when she appeared before the Senate Plenary on Tuesday, June 11 to update the country on IPOA’s investigations, Wanjiku said that after the forensic analysis, it had been established that the CCTV system had been interfered with.
A postmortem was conducted on the body of Ojwang’ on Monday, June 10, with the results revealing that the cause of death was a head injury due to blunt force trauma, neck compressions, and multiple subcutaneous bruises all over the body.
Therefore, IPOA asserts that the autopsy report and its preliminary investigations rule out the earlier theory by the National Police Service (NPS) that Ojwang’ committed suicide inside the police cells.
Chronology of events
The whole saga started when the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) received a complaint from the Deputy Inspector General Kenya Police Service (DIG-KPS) Eliud Lagat.
In the letter, DIG Lagat alleged that he suffered continuous false and malicious publications on X, formerly Twitter, account with the user name ‘Pixel Pioneer’. Lagat apparently requested investigations with a view to establish the person and motive behind the posts.
On the same day, 4th June 2025, the complainant (DIG Lagat) was referred to Serious Crime Unit based at the DCI Headquarters for investigations.
Through forensic analysis, reports indicate that the investigators were able to identify the link used by the blogger, and the person linked to the account as one Kelvin Moinde.
On 5th June 2025, Moinde was arrested by DCI officers from the Serious Crime Unit at Gituki area in Bomachoge Borabu, Kisii County, and later escorted to Nairobi. He was placed in custody at Kamukunji Police Station Nairobi.
On interrogating Moinde, the officers established that one Albert Ojwang’, a resident of Homa Bay County was a person of interest and therefore planned to arrest him.
On 7th of June 2025 at around 8 am, a team comprising of Sergeant Sigei, Sergeant Wesley Kipkorir Kirui, PC Dennis Kenyoni, PC Milton Mwanze and PC Boniface Rabudo went to Homa Bay County and arrested the deceased at around 2:30 pm, and took him to Mawego Police Station.
At around 3:54 pm, the deceased was booked out and escorted to Nairobi where he was booked at Central Police Station.
On 8th June 2025, according to the police signal, the deceased was rushed to Mbagathi Hospital by police officers from Central Police Station, where he was declared dead and later taken to City Funeral Home.
Wanjiku says that IPOA learnt of the death of Albert Ojwang in police custody on 8th June 2025 from the media as well as through the police signal sent to the authority by the Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja, and immediately commenced investigations.
What IPOA has achieved so far;
The authority sent its officers to visit and document the scene for the purpose of preserving the integrity of the evidence, to establish the sequence of the events, and identify any indicators of misconduct.
“Blood samples were collected from the scene and blood spatter analysis was also done by our investigating officers. All relevant police documents were collected from Central Police Station. Statements from all the five DCI arresting officers were recorded,” Wanjiku told Senators.
In a letter addressed to Mbagathi Hospital, IPOA has since requested information on whether Ojwang’ was treated at the facility. A reply is expected by close of business today (11th June, 2025).
IPOA has also contacted the family of Ojwang’, identified potential witnesses as well as obtained the occurrence book records from Mawego Police Station.
IPOA also attended the postmortem examination and obtained a report on the same.
“The samples drawn from the deceased body were secured and are pending onward transmission to the government chemist. The statement of one detainee held at Central Police Station was also recorded,” Wanjiku revealed.
The following are IPOA’s pending tasks;
- To forward the collected samples from crime scene for analysis
- To forward samples collected from the deceased body for analysis
- To record a statement of other potential witnesses and family members
- To record the statement of the officers from Central Police Station today. The recording were to start at 9 am at our offices at the headquarters.
- Collect medical documents from Mbagathi Hospital and analyse evidence and to generate a report on the same.
