The family of a man charged with impersonating Inspector-General of Police Joseph Boinnet has demanded thorough investigations into his death at the Industrial Area Prison in Nairobi.
John Kibowen Cheboiwo, who had been in remand for five weeks, reportedly collapsed on June 15 and was pronounced dead on arrival at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH).
Commissioner of Prisons Isaiah Osugo said the inmate died at the KNH and not at the Prison, adding that the matter was under investigation.
Cheboiwo’s mother, Jane Anyango, said she was informed of her second-born child’s death on June 17, two days after the incident.
“I was told that the body had been taken to City Mortuary. I went there and found it. The records there indicated ‘sudden death’,” Ms Anyango said.
A postmortem on the body at the mortuary did not indicate a definite cause of death.
“We decided to take the body to Chiromo Mortuary and have another pathologist conduct an autopsy,” the distraught mother of five said.
She said she wondered why the autopsy at the City Mortuary was not completed and thus decided to have a second one.
“At Chiromo Mortuary, government pathologist Johansen Oduor did an autopsy and said that Cheboiwo’s neck had injuries on the left side, part of his brain was swollen, and there were blood clots on the tips of his fingers,
“It does not add up that a person who collapsed could have signs of strangulation and such injuries,” Ms Anyango said.
Dr Oduor told the Nation, “There was some haemorrhage on the neck muscles, a brain oedema and peripheral cyanosis,”
