Homa Bay Town Member of Parliament Peter Kaluma has called for swift disciplinary action against the individual responsible for ordering the arrest of Albert Omondi Ojwang, a 31-year-old teacher and social media influencer who died in police custody on June 8, 2025.
In a strongly worded statement issued on Tuesday, Kaluma asserted that the person who authorized Ojwang’s arrest may also be implicated in orchestrating his alleged torture.
Kaluma, a prominent figure in the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), suggested a direct link between the order for Ojwang’s arrest and the circumstances leading to his death.
“The person who instructed that Albert Ojwang be arrested and unprocedurally moved to Nairobi is the same person who instructed his torture and killing,” Kaluma said.
“Let the person be arrested, prosecuted for murder, and jailed. Respect for human rights must be at the heart of policing in Kenya,” he added.
“Albert Ojwang was taken from the family by the police, driven to Nairobi by the police; killed while in police custody, and given back to the family dead! What would justice be to his parents to whom he was the only child? To his wife and his infant child! “Unacceptable!” he stated.
Ojwang was apprehended in Homa Bay on June 7, 2025, by Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) officers for allegedly posting false information about Deputy Inspector General of Police Eliud Lagat on the social media platform X.
The MP’s remarks follow a postmortem report released on Tuesday, which confirmed that Ojwang succumbed to severe head injuries caused by blunt force trauma, with additional injuries to his head, neck, limbs, and body.
The report, conducted by a team of five pathologists led by Dr Bernard Midia and Dr Njoroge, concluded that the injuries were not self-inflicted and occurred over multiple instances, contradicting the police claim of suicide.
Kaluma’s demand for accountability adds to mounting pressure on the National Police Service (NPS) and the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) to conduct a transparent investigation into Ojwang’s death.
