Fresh details are now putting senior police officers on the spot over the murder of teacher Albert Ojwang. Despite earlier reports clearing the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) officers involved in his arrest, new evidence is now pointing towards a wider web of coordinated communication.
Investigators have now linked OCS Samson Talaam to the DCI officer who drove the Subaru that picked Ojwang from Mawego Police Station in Homa Bay and took him to Central Police Station in Nairobi.
The driver, also a DCI officer, was reportedly in regular contact with OCS Talaam during the entire process. Investigators now believe there was a clear flow of information between Talaam, the DCI driver, and another senior officer identified as Eliud Lagat.
This communication chain has become a key focus in the investigation as it could shed light on the planning that led to Albert Ojwang’s death.
Detectives have already gone to court to seek orders compelling telecom companies to release the call data records of the suspects involved.
By analyzing the call records, detectives aim to confirm whether the communication between Talaam and the Subaru driver was just routine or whether it was part of a coordinated plan to harm Ojwang. Earlier in the investigation, a police constable identified as James Mukwana raised concerns about Talaam’s conduct.
He claimed that the OCS already seemed aware that Ojwang would be detained at Central Police Station even before he officially arrived there for booking.
This has raised suspicion that the entire operation was predetermined and not a matter of routine police procedure.So far, it remains unclear who exactly was driving the Subaru.
The officers believed to have been in the car include sergeant Sigei, sergeant Wesley Kirui, constable Kinyoni Dennis, constable Milton Mwanze, and constable Boniface Rapido.
While one of them was the actual driver, authorities have yet to confirm which officer was behind the wheel. What is known is that all of them played a role in transporting Ojwang from Homa Bay to Nairobi, where he later died under unclear circumstances.
An insider report now reveals that the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) has classified all the seventeen officers linked to the case as murder suspects.
This includes not just those who were in the Subaru but others believed to have been involved in the planning or execution of the operation. IPOA has already taken some officers and civilians to court this week and is now preparing to begin charging the suspects formally.
As investigations deepen, more names may come up, and the focus will remain on uncovering how a teacher under police custody ended up dead.
The communication records, if released, could play a big role in piecing together what happened between his arrest and his death. The family and public now wait to see if the system will deliver justice.
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