Albert Ojwang murder: Mbagathi Hospital report contradicts police claims

The search for the truth about the circumstances leading to the brutal murder of 31-year-old teacher Albert Ojwang continues to reveal even more disturbing details.

While the police have maintained that the deceased was taken to Mbagathi District Hospital for medical attention, a report from the hospital paints a different and grim picture.

According to the Medical officer on duty that day, Albert Ojwang was brought in at 2.00am. What the medical personnel encountered was not a man in need of urgent medical attention, but a body bearing horrific signs of trauma.

His face, the report details, was swollen. His body and limbs were marred by multiple bruises. Blood, a chilling detail, was oozing from the back of his head, his mouth, and his eyes. The back of his head, the parieto Occipital region had a cut. His entire body was cold to the touch. He was unresponsive. He was dead.

The nurses on duty that fateful day both stated that upon assessing the body, they confirmed that it was a corpse that was brought to them. The report from the hospital also states the body was brought in from Nairobi’s Central Police Station.

The nurses on duty that fateful morning confirmed what the visible evidence suggested, Albert Ojwang was brought in already dead. This crucial detail directly contradicts initial statements from the police, who had indicated that Ojwang had been taken to the hospital for medical attention.

The notification of death to the mortuary, lists the location of his death as the Central Police Station. While police maintain they found Ojwang unresponsive and rushed him to the hospital at 0139hrs – just minutes before his documented arrival at Mbagathi – the hospital's findings suggest he never had a fighting chance.

This conflict in the timing of Ojwang’s arrival at Mbagathi is just one of the confusing details about his death. Police had initially stated Ojwang had inflicted injuries on himself.

But the detail of the severe injuries as indicated in the report and consequently cemented by the autopsy results show what can only be described as a brutal and deadly attack on the young man.

The questions are mounting, on whether Albert Ojwang died at the Central Police Station, what transpired within those walls? How did a man, supposedly found unresponsive, acquire such devastating and fatal injuries? And why was he then transported to a hospital under the guise of seeking medical attention, when according to the medical report, he was already beyond help?

These are the questions his family and indeed the entire country wants answered even as police and investigative agencies promise to get to the bottom of this murder that has shaken the country to it's core.