The officers who arrested Albert Ojwang’ were briefing Eliud Lagat on everything, including their movements, yet Kenyans are now being asked to believe that the briefings suddenly stopped just before Albert was killed and that Lagat somehow became a complete stranger to the operation.
That story does not add up.
You cannot receive updates throughout an operation, follow the movements of the officers involved and then conveniently disappear from the chain of communication at the exact moment the operation turns deadly.
Kenyans are not stupid, and any attempt to isolate junior officers while Eliud Lagat is treated as though he knew nothing must be rejected.
The growing focus on junior officers in the Albert Ojwang case should not stop Kenyans from asking why Eliud Lagat appears to be drifting away from the centre of the story.
Albert was arrested over a complaint linked to Lagat, transported from Homa Bay to Nairobi and later died in police custody, yet responsibility now appears to be narrowing around those lower in the chain.
That should worry everyone.
The State may present arrests, CCTV footage and selected details as proof that justice is being done, but accountability cannot end with the people who carried out the operation while the senior officer whose complaint triggered it is treated like a distant observer.
Kenyans must not be carried in a stupid way.
If junior officers must answer, then the country must also be told what role Eliud Lagat played, what instructions were issued, who approved Albert’s movement and who expected reports from those handling him.
There were reports that Albert was removed from the cell at Central Police Station and taken to meet a senior National Police Service official at Karura forest torture chambers and it was at this point he was tortured in the presence of this senior official till he collapsed and died, they returned a body to Central Police station to stage a crime scene......
A command structure cannot be visible when orders are being followed and suddenly disappear when a citizen dies.
No one is asking that Lagat be convicted without evidence, but neither should he quietly walk free while those below him carry the entire burden.
The real test of this investigation is whether the full chain of command will be exposed, including Eliud Lagat’s role, without fear, favour or selective protection.
@richard_nyango@otienowill ‘Silent majority’ is a term used to create the impression of widespread support without strong evidence. Silent majority in Kenya means rigging elections and that will not happen. So desist from calling BALLOT STUFFING & GOONISM ‘Silent majority’
@itskipronoh UDA was beaten is Ol Kalao fairly and squarely, Ruto had no special plan other than rigging the polls which unfortunately for him failed, there is no genius in Ruto’s politics, you are just trying to soften the defeat by being low budget political analysts
He adds nothing useful to any ticket. He is a dwarf in multiple senses. He is lightweight in more than one way. He is liability personified. He is well past his sell by date. He is a dead stock. He is dead as a dodo. His Mt. Kenya people ridicule and loathe him...and rightly so. He is a political freeloader taking complimentary ride at the back of his Boss. President Ruto MUST LET HIM GO!
@HassanMcOjwang At this age huyu hawezi sikia, i remember when is started drinking i was of her age, sikua naambilika i couldn’t listen to anyone mwenye alikua ananiambia niache pombe. I did alcohol for 8yrs, alafu nikaiacha peke yangu. Now it’s 9yrs since i quit. Ataacha tu peke yake
@Kabodyj1@kilundeezy So you are trying to say in 2013 Gachagua was powerful than Nderitu, so powerful that he influenced his jailing. And if so how comes we never heard Nderitu fight for his son until his death. This story was not cooked well and it can only take fools to believe it
@ClintonObonyo With a good lawyer and a magistrate who is in such of justice this girl might walk free, or the investigation officer will have to start from zero because the courts can reject confessions obtained through coercion, intimidation, or without following legal procedures.
@ClintonObonyo The girl just waived her rights when she started talking, but with the this lady saying the she presented the murder weapon after being whipped by the police, forgot the courts can reject confessions obtained through coercion, intimidation, or without following legal procedures.
@clichy_malooks@gidikariuki Maybe selected markets will not embrace EV more especially African market, because a place like Middle East, for every 10 car you spot 3-4 are electric