Heavy anti-riot police officers have been deployed to disperse protestors in the Nairobi Central Business District (CBD) who were demonstrating to demand justice for the late Albert Ojwang.

Ojwang died in detention hours after he was arrested by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) officers.

The protests, which began on Thursday morning, June 12, 2025, escalated, leading to the deployment at the intersection between Moi Avenue, Harambee Avenue, and Haile Selassie roads, which led toward the parliament buildings and the National Treasury.

This comes as the country awaits the National Treasury Cabinet Secretary (CS) John Mbadi to read the 2025/2026 Financial Year budget.

The Kenyan youths took to the streets after Ojwang’s post-mortem report 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. 

“When we examined the pattern of the injury, especially the trauma I found on the head… hitting against a blunt substance like a wall would have a pattern,” he stated. 

Midia pointed out that in the event of one hitting themselves on a wall, frontal bleeding on the head would be seen.

“But the bleeds that we found on the scalp, on the skin of the head, were spaced, including on the face, sides of the head, and the back of the head,” he explained. 

The pathologist, who conducted the procedure alongside the family’s representative, Mutuma Zambezi, dismissed the possibility of Ojwang’ injuring himself. 

“When we tie up together with other injuries that are well spread on parts of the body … including the upper limbs and the trunk … Then this is unlikely to be a self-inflicted injury,” he added.

Contradiction

The post-mortem findings contradicted a police report on Sunday, June 8, 2025, where Ojwang was reported to have hit his head on the wall of a cell at Central Police Station. 

As a result, the Inspector General of Police, Douglas Kanja, tendered an apology for issuing the wrong report regarding investigations into the murder of influencer Albert Ojwang.

During the Senate proceedings on Wednesday, June 11, 2025, IG Kanja, boxed into a corner, begrudgingly apologised for the initial report. 

“I tender my apology on behalf of the NPS because of that information,” Kanja said amid the applause from the senators.