A petition seeking the removal of Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Eliud Lagat has been filed at the High Court.
The petition, filed on Friday, June 13, follows the arrest, alleged torture, and death of Albert Ojwang while in police custody at Central Police Station.
In an urgent application filed at the Milimani Law Courts, the petitioners, among them lawyer Ndegwa Njiru and Mt Kenya Jurists, are requesting that the matter be certified as urgent and heard on a priority and ex parte basis in the first instance.
They are also seeking conservatory orders restraining Lagat from accessing his office, performing the duties of DIG, or accessing any facility of the National Police Service, pending investigations by the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) and the commencement of prosecution against those responsible.
