Earlier this month, Kenya woke up to shocking news of the death of teacher Albert Ojwang while in police custody.
His death, which the police initially claimed was by suicide before retracting that theory of events in the wake of new evidence and public outcry, is unfortunately not an isolated case.
According to the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) chairman in a recent statement to MPs, 20 people have died while in police custody in the last four months.
These numbers, probably under-reported, reflect a crisis that should worry all of us when police stations, which one would presume to be safe, become killing fields.
