Constable James Mukhwana has exposed the real murderers of Albert Ojwang’ in his confession to IPOA in which he tells the country that they were paid Sh. 2,000 and drowned in alcohol so that they should go and kill Albert Ojwang’ and that money was paid by Eliud Lagat himself in coordination with the OCS Samson Talaam
The sheer cruelty of it all shutters the human mind. The big criminals who run the Kenya Police knew the crime they were about to commit was so hideous that they needed to get the killers drunk out of their minds so they could just go and tear down Albert Ojwang’ to pieces.
Right now Eliud Lagat and OCS Samson Talaam should be in police custody and should be produced in court tomorrow to face murder charges and they should be held in jail during trial and then locked up for life. I am not a supporter of the death sentence to get prisoners hanged although I witnessed the last one when I was at Kamiti Medium Prison and they were hanging people at Kamiti Maximum in 1987 but if I was a supporter of the death sentence these are the right criminals to be hanged.
The nasty thing about hanging prisoners in Kamiti is that the ropes don’t work well so the hanged person falls to the floor still alive and then they are bludgeoned to death by the Prison Guards with rungus until they are dead and their heads are broken to pieces. That would remind Lagat and Talaam about what happened to Albert Ojwang’ after they paid his killers.
Albert Ojwang’s killers got Sh2,000 for alcohol, Mukhwana confesses
“Ni amri kutoka kwa mkubwa. Huwezi kataa amri ya mkubwa. Ukikataa kuna kitu inaweza kukufanyikia,” (It is an order from the boss. You cannot decline an order from your superior. If you refuse, something may happen to you), Mukhwana quoted his boss, Chief Inspector Samson Talaam, the Central Police Station OCS.
In his detailed statement, Mukhwana alleges that the plan to “discipline” Ojwang’ was hatched hours before his arrival at the station, during a closed-door meeting with the OCS and Deputy OCS.
The OCS allegedly instructed him to identify inmates willing to rough up a suspect who was to be brought in by officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) later that evening.
“Nataka uende celi uangalie wale wamekaa rumande uwambie kuna kazi nataka wafanye kuna mahabusu analetwa wamushughilikie kidogo.” (I want you to go to the cell and look at those who have been in remand for long, tell them there is work I want them to do, there is a prisoner being brought in, take care of him)”
When the DCI officers arrived around 9.10 pm in a black Subaru with Ojwang’ in handcuffs, Mukhwana told the Ipoa investigators, he was called and handed over a phone, on the other end of the call was the OCS, who told Mukhwana that the suspect had arrived.
Shortly after Ojwang’ was booked into the cells, the OCS allegedly called Mukhwana, instructing him that the beating should be serious enough to cause visible injuries requiring hospitalization.
“I called Talaam and asked him the extent of the beating that was needed he told mtu apigwe apate majeraha apelekwe hospitali,” stated Mukhwana.
Moments later, Mukhwana recounts, four inmates, including Colins Iter, Gil Ammiton, Brian Mwaniki, and Erick Ndambuki, dragged Ojwang’ into the last cell opposite the toilets.
“I could hear the screams from the cell.’’
“Police Constable James Mukhwana, who is a Key suspect in the murder investigations, told the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) that they were given money to buy the killers before the mission”.
Mukhwana who was the Cell Sentry on the night of June 8, 2025, when the murder was committed said OCS Samson Talaam and the Deputy Inspector General of Police Eliud Lagat had made calls that the deceased be disciplined.
According to him, Ojwang’s tormentors needed to be high as they could not execute the mission while sober”.
So there we go with gruesome details of DIG and OCS Samson Talaam ordering Mukhwana to mobilize the killing mob and paying them money to get drunk so they can execute the job sufficiently. I mean this is not about mafia killers. These are the leaders of the Kenya Police arranging and paying for brutal execution of Albert Ojwang’
The next issue is about the involvement of IG Douglas Kanja Kirocho who the day after this terrible murder lied to Kenyans about Albert Ojwang’ having committed suicide in the Central Police Station. It looks like he was a big part of the murder scheme helping his deputy who directly paid for the brutal murder.
IG Kanja could not have done that by accident because he is a police chief and he cannot just make false announcement unless you are part of the operation. This operation was carried out with IG Kanja’s knowledge and he had it all planned out to make this be announced as suicide.
For that to happen IG Kanja and his deputy Eliud Lagat must have arranged that the murder has to be carried out through strangling, neck breaking and his head cut to pieces so it will justify the claim that Albert Ojwang’ was banging his head on the wall at the police cell.
There is one thing here that Kenyans should worry about very seriously. Just a day before the confession was exposed DIG Eliud Lagat stepped down and that is very suspicious. It seems that once the IPOA got the confession from Constable James Mukhwana they informed the big bosses who then figured it is better to have DIG Lagat step down before the bomb explodes. In other words whatever is coming out of the investigations is being handed over to the top people in government by IPOA and that can be very dangerous.
Constable James Mukhwana did not just confess to the murder of Albert Ojwang’ he gave the names of those who paid them to commit the murder and IPOA boss Ahmed Isaack Hassan knew that President Ruto big boys were in shit and then they engineered the step down of DIG Eliud Lagat.
It is likely that the government plan was to get Constable James Mukhwana to take full responsibility for the murder with his fellow constables and just claim that they did it by themselves then Mukhwana opened the can of stinky worms and IPOA had no choice but to streamline the process for easy landing for the Ruto government.
What is next is very important because the safety of Constable James Mukhwana is at stake. If the government does the right thing and charge both Eliud Lagat and Samson Talaam with murder they should be headed to Nairobi Industrial Area Remand Prison (INDA) during the trial and that is where Constable James Mukhwana also will be held. That is a recipe for disaster.
I know how INDA works because in there it is hell because when you sleep in the overcrowded prison lying down on the floor you are very tight. The prisoner next to you has his head next to your feet and your head is in to their feet.
It is so tight that if you turn around the next person has to turn too and it goes to the wall. Everybody gets mad and they just beat the crap out of you and they can choose anybody to beat. If Constable James Mukhwana is in there at INDA the big bosses will find away to get fellow prisoners to kill him before he can testify in court.
The only relatively safe place at Nairobi Industrial Area Remand Prison is Block E which is for solitary confinement and they have rooms where they can lock you in and keep the key and you only come out to throw out your poo from the bucket and it is one person at a time.
If the big bosses are taken there they will be put in a special places and in fact they will have five star hotels there but it is very easy for them to get the other prisoners to knock Constable James Mukhwana out completely and just kill him and they don’t care about anything.
One thing we should make clear is that once Lagat and Talaam are charged with murder they should not be given bail to be tried while living freely in their homes because they will run out of the country. In fact even now when they are still out there that is what they are going to do and go to some country where they cannot be brought back.
If these top government criminals escape from the country that will be very good for President Ruto because then they do not have to deal with the case at all. Even the government could help them escape. These government murderers could be smuggled by President Ruto himself to a country like Chad and then they will say ooh they escaped there and that is the end of the whole murder case.
There are people talking about Constable James Mukhwana getting out on bond now while in police custody. That chapter is closed after he confessed to the murder. You only get out on bond when you are in police custody for investigations. This guy has a couple of options which is to be charged with murder, be jailed straight away if he pleads guilty or be given special privileges by the government as a witness against Lagat and Talaam.
The serious issue now which Kenyan activists made clear to the government in Nairobi today is that the two murderers of Albert Ojwang’ namely Eliud Lagat and Samson Talaam should be in court now facing murder charges.
As expected none of the Kenyan opposition leaders have come out to organize protests in the streets as Kenyans get brutalized by the Ruto regime. For them these Ruto killing of Kenyans is just an opportunity to talk and yell or take the fight to Twitter while doing nothing. That is why they are going nowhere.
The opposition in Kenya is the gift that keeps coming for William Ruto because they will never step out in the streets to take the real fight to President Ruto. The opposition have abandoned the activists to fight for Kenya by themselves and get killed by Ruto so they can talk about that from their safe homes in Karen and Wamunyoro and they think Kenyans will elect them for that talking business.
It is a shame to see that whole crowd of opposition leaders who are completely unable and unwilling to mobilize rallies to fight for the rights of Kenyans. Shenzi kabisa. Can someone give them a map to show them where Nairobi City is in the country.
Adongo Ogony is a Kenyan Human Rights Activist and a Writer who lives in Toronto, Canada
