New details have come out in the case of blogger and high school teacher Albert Ojwang’s death, raising serious questions about the honesty and conduct of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, especially under the leadership of DCI boss Mohamed Amin.
The new information sharply contradicts the earlier report presented by Amin himself to Parliament. While Amin claimed Ojwang was alive when booked into Central Police Station, CCTV footage from Mbagathi County Hospital now tells a different and disturbing story.
The footage, allegedly captured at the hospital’s parking lot, appears to show police officers dropping off what looks like a lifeless body and leaving it unattended for about 20 minutes.
This directly challenges the official position of the DCI, which stated that Ojwang was alive when he left the police station and was only later taken to hospital.
The timeline now appears questionable, and the truth seems to be buried under deliberate cover-ups.
Mohamed Amin had confidently presented details from the Occurrence Book to the National Assembly’s departmental committee on internal security, insisting that Ojwang was arrested in Homa Bay and arrived in Nairobi at 9:35 pm in good health.
However, if the CCTV evidence holds, it means that Amin misled Parliament and tried to protect those responsible instead of getting justice for the deceased.
For a man in charge of the country’s top investigative agency, this is not only shameful but dangerous for the rule of law.
Why would the police take a man across counties, only for him to end up dead and dumped like garbage in a hospital parking lot?
These are the questions Kenyans are asking, and the man at the center of the rot is Mohamed Amin.
As the head of DCI, he is supposed to ensure transparency, justice, and proper investigations. But instead, his actions seem to show someone more interested in protecting the police force from accountability.
This is not the first time the DCI has been accused of mishandling sensitive cases. But this time, a man is dead, and all fingers point to a force that has refused to take responsibility.
Advocate Danstan Omari is expected to represent OCS Talam, one of the key figures in the case. But no legal defense can wipe out the stain of what appears to be a state-sanctioned killing followed by a botched cover-up.
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