DCI boss Amin: Ojwang was treated with utmost care while en route to Nairobi
The Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI), Mohamed Amin, has defended the conduct of officers who arrested and transferred 31-year-old Albert Ojwang’, who later died in police custody.
Amin told the Senate on Wednesday, June 11, 2025, that Ojwang was treated with utmost respect and humility while being transported from Homa Bay to Nairobi.
The DCI boss added that while Ojwang was in transit, he even received refreshments in Narok when the officers made a stop upon his request.
“I can confirm that the deceased was treated with utmost humility throughout the journey from Homa Bay to Nairobi by the arresting officers. While at Narok, he asked for refreshments and he was given,” Amin stated.
Ojwang had been arrested over cybercrime-related offences. According to Amin, the arrest was lawful and based on a legitimate complaint.
He explained that although Ojwang’ was apprehended in Homa Bay, the reported offence was committed in Nairobi, prompting the transfer.
“Ordinary places of trial for an offence are determined where the crime was committed. In this case, the offence, we believe, was committed in Nairobi, and that is why he had to be driven to Nairobi. Offences of cybercrime have a national jurisdiction as there is no way of justifying the place where it has been perpetrated,” the DCI boss said.
The DCI boss made it clear that if investigations uncover any wrongdoing or prove that any officer was complicit in Ojwang’s death, appropriate legal action would be taken.
He highlighted the DCI’s commitment to ensuring that justice is served, regardless of the outcome of the probe.
“If the investigation establishes that the DCI officers participated in the killing of the deceased, then the law should take its course, and suitable action should be taken against them,” he told the Senate.
Autopsy
His remarks come amid growing public anger after a post-mortem report revealed that Ojwang had suffered multiple injuries across his body, contradicting an earlier police report.
Pathologist Dr. Bernard Midia, who conducted the autopsy alongside a representative of Ojwang’s family, concluded that the injuries were not self-inflicted. He ruled out the claim in the police report that Ojwang had hit his head against a wall inside a police cell.
“When we examined the pattern of the injury, especially the trauma I found on the head… hitting against a blunt substance like a wall would have a pattern. But the bleeds that we found on the scalp, on the skin of the head, were spaced, including on the face, sides of the head, and the back of the head,” Midia explained
He emphasised that if someone hits themselves on a wall, bleeding would mostly appear at the front of the head. That was not the case with Ojwang.
“When we tie up together with other injuries that are well spread on parts of the body … including the upper limbs and the trunk … Then this is unlikely to be a self-inflicted injury,” Midia added.
The autopsy findings sharply contradict a police report issued on Sunday, June 8, which claimed that Ojwang had died after hitting his head on the wall of a cell at the Central Police Station in Nairobi.
