Police explanation of Ojwang's death comes from a familiar past script

Deputy Inspector General Kenya Police Service Eliud Lagat, The Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja and Ahmed Issack Hassan chairperson of the board of the Independent Policing Oversight Authority briefing the press following Albert Omondi Ojwang's death in police custody at Central Police station, Nairobi. June 9, 2025. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]

Although common sense is expected of people holding positions of responsibility, not all of them exhibit that human quality. Rulers repeatedly do things that reveal a desire to insult the public and thereby cause it to lose trust.

At first, the insulted public gives the officials the benefit of the doubt, wondering whether the said officials are blind, insensitive to the cries of the ruled, or simply fundamentally foolish.