Friday, July 4, 2025 - Outspoken Homa Bay Town MP, Peter Kaluma, has claimed that the youths who torched Mawego Police Station on Thursday, July 3rd, were not local residents but had been ferried from Nairobi.
In a post on social media, Kaluma defended residents of Homa
Bay, asserting that they had coexisted peacefully with the police station for
years, even following the controversial death of Albert Ojwang, who died in
police custody in Nairobi.
“The goons who have burnt Mawego Police Station were ferried
from Nairobi.”
“Our students and people didn’t burn the station.”
“They have lived with it all these years, even after the
killing of our son Albert Ojwang,” Kaluma stated.
The police station was set ablaze by enraged protesters who
had marched with Ojwang's body to the premises in protest of his death.
Some officers were seen evacuating their belongings as
others attempted to contain the fire.
Ojwang, a teacher and blogger, had been arrested and
initially held at Mawego Police Station before being transferred to Central
Police Station in Nairobi, where he died.
His death has triggered national outrage.
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has since approved
murder charges against six officers, including Central OCS, Samson Talaam, in
connection with Ojwang’s death.
The Kenyan DAILY POST
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