Murkomen: The person who beat that gentleman is an animal
Interior and National Administration Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has indicated that Albert Ojwang was brutally tortured before he died.
Answering questions from the senators in the company of the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) Vice chairperson, DCI director Mohamed Amin and Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja on Wednesday, June 11, 2025, Murkomen said the perpetrators of the crime must face justice.
“If you see how that young man was beaten, the person who did it was an animal; and it calls upon all of us to say that that person must face justice,” Murkomen observed.
Disregard for the law
“It is not the absence of legal frameworks or policy direction that led to the killing of Albert Ojwang. It is blatant disregard for the law and the constitution.”
On the call by the senators to compensate Albert’s father, Meshack Ojwang, Murkomen indicated that the support should also come from the senators.
“I agree that in one way or the other, we must support Albert’s family, and that those people found culpable will also be held to account,” he said.
On Tuesday, June 10, 2025, five pathologists conducting a postmortem on the body of Albert unanimously concluded that his injuries were inconsistent with self-inflicted harm as narrated by Kanja on Monday, June 9, 2025.
Contradicting police statement
Speaking on Tuesday, June 10, 2025, after conducting an autopsy at Nairobi Funeral Home, government pathologist Bernard Midia, revealed that Ojwang’s body bore multiple injuries consistent with a physical struggle, raising serious questions about the circumstances of his death.
“When you combine all the injuries in the body, they are consistent with a struggle,” Midia stated.
“There were signs of struggle, generally, for consumption, but they are well described in the report that we’ve delivered for investigative purposes.”
He noted that the injuries were spread all over the body, including the upper limbs, trunk, and head, with bleeds and hematomas on the scalp, face, sides, and back of the head.
These findings, Midia explained, make it “unlikely to be self-inflicted injury.”
On the issue of hitting his head against the wall, Kanja told senators that he had received the information from the Central Police Station, a statement that has since been challenged by the autopsy report.
“There was this report of Albert having hit his head against the wall; that was the primary information that came from the same station. But in the subsequent briefing that I did, that was rectified, and we can be able to clearly see that from the results of the postmortem,” Kanja noted.
