Suspended Central Police Station OCS Samson Talaam breaks silence
National
By
Pkemoi Ng'enoh
| Jun 15, 2025
Suspended Central Police Station OCS Samson Talaam now claims he was not arrested.
Speaking on Saturday after meeting the OCS at the Lang’ata Police Station, his lawyer Danstan Omari also claims Talaam was not at Central Police Station, and that they were assembling CCTV footage and mobile phone data to show what transpired on the night Albert Ojwang was killed.
“When Talaam heard that he had been described as a person of interest in the case, he contacted me and another advocate Mr Keaton but on Friday, I was in court representing another officer who was arrested in connection with this case,” Omari said.
Omari said since he was not available, his colleague advised the OCS to surrender to the DCI on Friday afternoon.
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“Yesterday (Friday) afternoon, around 2 pm Keaton presented Talaam to offices of the Directorate of Criminal Investigation at Mazingira House, the DCI headquarters.”
At the headquarters, Omari said some officers were instructed that the OCS be presented to the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) in the company of his advocate.
“Talaam was taken to IPOA headquarters and was handed over to IPOA officers who took a statement in the presence of Keaton and after that he was taken to Langata Police Station in the evening hours.”
At the station, it is alleged that there was a misunderstanding between IPOA and police officers on who would book Talaam in accordance to the law.
“Under the National Police Service Orders, the National Service Police Act only allows a police officer to book an inmate into an occurrence book (OB) and that OB puts that person to the cells,” Omari noted.
He said the dispute was that IPOA officers who accompanied Talaam were not supposed to book him in because they are not police officers, but they instructed him to obey since the matter would be handled later on in the High Court.
“According to us, the OCS is booked illegally by ordinary citizens working for IPOA without a relevant clause of a police officer, but we advised our client to comply. That is the first illegality that we have put out clearly,” Omari said.