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How DIG Lagat has been cornered over Ojwang's death

DIG Police Eliud Lagat leaves IPOA offices after a three-hour grilling over the murder of teacher Albert Ojwang on June 19, 2025. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]

When embattled Deputy Inspector General of Police Eliud Lagat stood on the steps of Central Police Station flanked by his boss, Douglas Kanja and Independent Policing Oversight Authority (Ipoa) chairperson Isaack Hassan, following the death of Albert Ojwang’, the contradiction could not have been more glaring. 

In a moment that raised eyebrows across the country, the very oversight body tasked with probing police misconduct had just shared a platform with the man at the centre of a storm, both as a senior officer and as the subject of a grave complaint in the death of teacher and blogger Albert Ojwang’.

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