Published on June 11, 2025 by Agencies for Kenya Online News
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Senate Majority Whip Senator Boni Khalwale has asked the Ministry of Interior and Cabinet Secretary (CS) Kipchumba Murkomen to resign immediately following the death of Albert Ojwang, who died in detention hours after being arrested by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) officers.
Speaking during a session in the Senate on Wednesday, June 11, 2025, Khalwale stated that the CS is not fit to run the Interior docket.
“You have the audacity to come and face the parliament of Kenya and tell Kenyans, ‘you don’t see and you don’t know.’ For the respect of this young man (Albert Ojwang), can you immediately resign? You are not fit to be in that docket,” he stated.
This is after Murkomen shifted the blame from his ministry to investigative departments over Albert Ojwang’s death.
While appearing in the Senate on June 11, 2025, Murkomen said the law is clear on who should shoulder such blame. He noted that those eyes have been given to investigative authorities under Article 245 of the Constitution.
“Unfortunately, the Constitution did not give me the eyes to see who is culpable; those eyes have been given to investigative authorities under 245 of the Constitution,” Murkomen told senators.
“I cannot direct the Inspector General of the National Police Service. Article 245(4) of the Constitution is very clear that the Cabinet Secretary responsible for police service, which in this situation is myself, may lawfully give direction to the Inspector General with respect to any matter of policy for the National Police Service,” he said.
This comes amid public outcry after Ojwang’s autopsy revealed that he was assaulted and suffered multiple body injuries.
Pathologist Bernard Midia, after completing an autopsy on his body on Tuesday, June 11, 2025, revealed that Ojwang did not hit himself on the wall as earlier reported in a police report.
