Nairobi’s Central Police OCS Samson Talaam has on Friday been arrested over the murder of social media influencer Albert Ojwang.
Confirming his arrested was the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) Commissioner Boniface Samati who said that his arrested was done by the Internal Affairs Unit (IAU).
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He continued by revealing that the OCS was then handed over to them and that they have recorded statements of more witnesses before the mysterious demise of the teacher in police custody as claimed.
“We have not completed our investigations and we are only providing the status update. We are not ruling out at this stage to say there are people we have absolved or not, the issue of high-ranking officers and shifting blame, we are taking it step by step. We are building a case.
We have more witnesses to talk to, and we have chances of arresting more suspects. From the record, we are aware that the deceased was booked in when he was well and he was booked out when he was taken to Mbagathi.” he said
Boniface Samati also claimed that the first suspect and police Constable Mukhwana holds crucial information as he was on duty on the fateful day. He also confirmed that blood samples from the cell have been collected and sent to the government lab for testing.
Also arrested in the ongoing probe was a technician who was allegedly contracted to disable the CCTV camera.
