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An activist protests outside Nairobi Funeral Home demanding justice following Albert Ojwang’s death in police custody. June 9, 2025. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]
The extra-judicial killing of Albert Ojwang last week tells the chilling story of a nervous government. This waste of life is only the latest in deliberate taking of life by the Kenyan state.
Ojwang, a teacher and influential blogger, was hauled from his home in Homa Bay, 358km from Nairobi, to be killed in the city. Indications are the police, in their lawbreakers incarnation, tortured him between his home and Nairobi’s notorious Central Police.
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