Maraga Gives Deadline For Arrest of IG Kanja, DIG Lagat, and DCI Boss Amin
Former Chief Justice David Maraga has ordered that the Inspector General of Police, Douglas Kanja, his deputy, Eliud Lagat, and the Director of Criminal Investigations, Mohammed Amin, be arrested in connection with Albert Ojwang’s killing.
Speaking to the press on Monday, June 16, the former CJ requested that the arrests be made by June 25, failing which he would join Kenyans in the private prosecution of the three.
According to the former CJ, they all lied under oath concerning the blogger’s kidnapping and subsequent murder, and he advised that this action be taken immediately.
Maraga claims they gave false sworn statements about Ojwang’s horrific death.
The former CJ claimed that their accounts directly contradicted various assertions made by the police agency.
Maraga says buck stops with President Ruto in Ojwang murder; to join June 25 march with families of Gen Z protest victims killed last year pic.twitter.com/LX7SRI7TqN
— Capital FM Kenya (@CapitalFMKenya) June 16, 2025
One of the red lights mentioned by Maraga was that there was prima facie evidence that DIG Lagat was directly or indirectly involved in the blogger’s illegal detention, torture, strangulation, and eventual murder, but he is still in service.
He claimed that Kenyans could no longer trust the three institutions, NPS, IPOA, and DCI, and urged that the judicial system be reset and rebuilt, beginning with the removal of the three senior officials.
“To begin this resetting and rebuilding process, we demand the arrest of the DCI because he lied on oath, and the IG, as well as Mr Lagat himself and they be prosecuted along with those associated with the murder of Ojwang,” he stated.
He stated that he supported all other Kenyans who had petitioned for the three’s prosecution, but that if no action was taken by June 25, he would join Kenyans in a statewide demonstration.
“We demand that this be done, on or before June 25. If that is not done, we will formally come out and join those efforts and demand private prosecution.”
On the extra-judicial killings and enhanced forced disappearances, the buck stops with the President. pic.twitter.com/vtx6fT5kle
— David Maraga (@dkmaraga) June 16, 2025
He went on to say that even if the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) failed to file charges against them, Kenyans had the right to seek private prosecution.
“Articles 1 and 3 of the constitution guarantee Kenyans their sovereignty, and thus they can act directly or through institutions set up,” he declared.
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“My team and I support those constitutional actions of Kenyans who are exercising the freedom of assembly to express their demand for accountability.”
In recent months, activists and the opposition have hinted at a massive protest on June 25 to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the tragic Gen-Z riots in 2024.
This strategy has just been bolstered by the death of Ojwang in police custody.
During the 2024 protests, scores of Kenyan teenagers were killed, and many more were kidnapped as they protested the Finance Bill, 2024.
Maraga Gives Deadline For Arrest of IG Kanja, DIG Lagat, and DCI Boss Amin
