The father of the late Albert Omondi Ojwang wants the High Court to order the arrest and prosecution of Deputy Inspector General of Police Eliud Lagat, accusing the senior police chief of masterminding the abduction, torture, and death of his son while in police custody.
In an affidavit in support of a petition filed on June 24, 2025, Meshack Ojwang weaves a chilling tale of what he says was a coordinated, state-backed cover-up to shield a high-ranking officer from accountability.
“I am the biological father of the late Albert Omondi Ojwang, the subject of this Petition,” he states, describing his son as “a law-abiding Kenyan citizen and a young man with a promising future whose life was brutally cut short while in the custody of the Kenya Police Service.”
According to the affidavit, officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) arrested Albert on June 7, 2025, at their rural home under alleged instructions from DIG Lagat. The officers reportedly claimed Albert had circulated information linking Lagat to corruption within the police service.
Meshack narrates that he later learned officers “secretly detained” his son at Central Police Station in Nairobi, where they “subjected him to torture, humiliation, and severe beatings on the instructions of DIG Eliud Lagat.”
Albert never walked out of the station alive. The affidavit alleges that he “succumbed to grievous injuries inflicted on him while in police custody, including blunt force trauma to the head and strangulation.”
Shortly after the incident, the Inspector General of Police announced that Albert had taken his own life by repeatedly hitting his head on a cell wall. Meshack rejects that version entirely. He points to a post-mortem report that, he says, “completely ruled out suicide and confirmed that his death was due to injuries consistent with torture and strangulation.”
Despite these findings, he claims that the authorities failed to act against the DIG. Instead, prosecutors charged junior officers in High Court at Kibera, Criminal Case No. E010 of 2025. Meshack calls this move “a deliberate cover-up scheme meant to shield DIG Eliud Lagat from accountability,” insisting the officers were simply following orders.
He also cites Senate proceedings where DCI leadership allegedly affirmed that Lagat “remained as the prime suspect,” arguing that no genuine process ever cleared him.
“As a grieving father, I am deeply troubled that the prosecution appears to shield DIG Eliud Lagat by shifting the entire blame onto the officers that were acting on his instructions and command,” he swears.
Meshack now wants the High Court to stop the ongoing trial and order the arrest and prosecution of the DIG.
“Justice for my son will not be realized unless the DIG Eliud Kipkoech Lagat is charged and prosecuted as the lead suspect in this matter,” he states, urging the court to prevent what he fears will be “a miscarriage of justice and denial of closure to me and my family.
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