Overview

• Deputy Inspector General Eliud Lagat opted to step aside on June 16 pending the Independent Policing Oversight Authority’s investigation into Ojwang’s detention and death.
• IPOA has arrested Nairobi Central Police Station OCS Samson Talam, Constable James Mukhwana, a CCTV technician and three civilian suspects on suspicion of covering up the fatal assault.
• An independent autopsy found head trauma, neck compression and multiple injuries that contradict the police claim that Ojwang committed suicide.
• Demonstrations demanding justice have drawn tear gas from riot police and violent disruptions by unidentified motorcyclists in Nairobi’s central business district.
• President William Ruto has vowed to hold rogue officers accountable as IPOA conducts a forensic review of deleted or tampered CCTV footage from the station