Fresh CCTV shows what happened at 10.46pm on night of Albert Ojwang's death

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- CCTV footage played in court on the second day of the Albert Ojwang murder trial showed the 30-year-old teacher arriving at Central Police Station alive

- Four individuals were seen on the footage reportedly roughing up a man believed to be Ojwang before he was carried out unresponsive from a cell near a toilet

- A witness testifying under protection said he was ordered to delete footage during the trial's first day

New CCTV footage presented at the Albert Ojwang murder trial on Thursday showed the 30-year-old teacher and blogger arriving at Nairobi's Central Police Station in a Subaru while still alive, before being dragged into a cell near the toilets and later removed from the facility unresponsive.

The footage, played before the court on the second day of proceedings, captured what appeared to be four individuals manhandling a man widely believed to be Ojwang within the station's premises. He did not walk out on his own.

What the CCTV Footage Revealed

Ojwang, a blogger and teacher from Homa Bay, was arrested in June 2025 on allegations that he had defamed a Deputy Inspector-General of Police through social media posts. He was transported from Homa Bay to Nairobi and placed in detention at Central Police Station, where he died on 7 June 2025.

Authorities initially maintained that Ojwang had harmed himself fatally while in custody. That account unravelled after an independent autopsy established that he had been tortured, with pathologists identifying severe head injuries, neck compression and multiple soft-tissue injuries consistent with an assault rather than self-harm.

Witness Ordered to Delete Footage

On the first day of the trial, a witness testified from behind a protected screen that he had been instructed to erase surveillance footage by former Officer Commanding Station Samson Talaam. The testimony added significant weight to concerns that evidence had allegedly been tampered with following Ojwang's death.

The emergence of additional footage that was not deleted appears to contradict the early police account and has placed the events inside the station under close judicial scrutiny. Ojwang was 30 years old at the time of his death.

Source: TUKO.co.ke

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