Bold Journalist Puts DCI Amin on the Spot over Inconsistent Reports: "You Lied on Oath"
- DCI boss Amin Mohamed appeared at the Senate on Thursday, June 12, to give an account of events leading to Albert Ojwang's death
- He stated that Ojwang' was found in the cells harming himself, a claim that the postmortem report negated
- This statement put Amin on the spot on Monday, June 30, when a journalist asked him a tough question regarding his words at the Senate
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The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) boss, Amin Mohammed, was challenged by a journalist during his press briefing.
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Speaking on Monday, June 30, the bold journalist asked the DCI boss why Kenyans should believe his statement of not knowing the whereabouts of IT expert Ndiang'ui Kinyagia.
Did Amin lie under oath?
The journalist further stated that Amin had lied under oath before, making it even harder for Kenyans to trust him.
"You lied under oath. Why should Kenyans believe you anymore when it comes to matters of criminal investigations?" the reporter asked Amin.
This question arose from Amin's statement in his Senate testimony on the murder of blogger Albert Ojwang' in police custody.
Amin had told the Senate that at 1:35 pm, the Central Police Station officers found Ojwang alive and injured in the cells.
Amin also stated that Ojwang' was found harming himself by kicking the cell walls, a narration that the postmortem proved to be wrong.
The Mbagathi Hospital CCTV footage also showed that Ojwang's body arrived at the medical facility at 1:35 pm, already dead.
"..the cell sentry PC Kimani have visited the cells and have found most of them well apart from the last cell where he found Albert Ojwang' who was alone in his cell making a lot of noise while kicking the cell walls," Amin stated at the Senate.
How did Amin respond to journalist?
In his defence, Amin stated that his account of the events leading to Ojwang's death was a verbatim reading of entries from the police official records and not a personal interpretation of how things happened.
"Whatever I said in the Senate, some people who did not mean well for the DCI misinterpreted what I said. What I was reading was from the records in the digital copy, but it was not what the DCI was saying," Amin affirmed.
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The DCI boss affirmed that what he submitted to the Senate was based directly on the digital Occurrence Book records that he had received.
"What I read wasn't an opinion from the DCI. It was what had been factually logged in," Amin defended himself.
Has Mohammed Amin been ordered to appear before court?
In a separate incident, the DCI boss was ordered to appear in court to explain blogger Kinyagia's mysterious disappearance.
The High Court judge questioned the contradictory police report following a raid on the IT expert's home.
Amin stated that Ndiangui was a person of interest after making a viral post shared on X (formerly Twitter), which included a mock invitation to the June 25 protests in Nairobi.
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