A 45-year-old defilement suspect was found dead inside a cell at Ukwala police station in Ugenya sub-county after allegedly committing suicide.
Maurice Ong’wen Oduor who was arrested after allegedly defiling his little girl, was found hanging from the ventilation grills inside the police cell.
According to Ugenya OCPD Mr. Willy Simba, the body was discovered by a Police Constable during a routine check.
The suspect who was found hanging with his jacket tied around his neck, had been charged with defilement and incest at Ukwala Law Courts and had been remanded until November 5, 2018 awaiting a mental assessment report. The body has since been moved to the Ukwala Sub-County hospital mortuary.
This is not the first time that an inmate has died mysteriously while in police custody. In August, David Mwai, who was the main suspect in the shooting of former Garissa Finance Minister Idriss Mukhtar was found dead at Parklands police station.
Pathologists Sylvester Maingi, Grace Midigo and Peter Ndegwa said Mr Mwai died by hanging though it could not be established if it was suicide or homicide.
Mr Mwai was suspected to be the man a CCTV footage captured shooting Mr Mukhtar in Kileleshwa.
Mr Mukhtar, who is admitted at Nairobi Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit, was shot in his car at the parking bay of a restaurant near the Kileleshwa mosque where he had attended 8pm prayers on August 19.
Garissa Governor Ali Korane distanced himself from the incident, saying he had no quarrel with Mr Mukhtar.
“I had absolutely nothing to do with the shooting. I had no problem whatsoever with him but unfortunately people had to link me with the incident,” Mr Korane said on Sunday during a prize giving day at Dertu Secondary School in Dadaab.
Police spokesman Charles Owino said Mr Mwai hanged himself at around noon on August 30 after leaving his cell under the guise of going to relieve himself.
Mr Mukhtar’s family has claimed that Idriss was shot because he questioned Governor Korane’s academic qualifications and fought corruption in the county government.
“He questioned the academic qualifications of Governor Ali Korane. That is why some people wanted him dead,” his father, Dr Aden Mukhtar, claimed.
However, Mr Korane dismissed the allegations.
“These stories that are being peddled that the university rejected my master’s certificate are untrue. I have never presented a master’s certificate to the IEBC, and if there is any then it must have been done by someone else but not me.”