President William Ruto's daughter, Charlene, has added her voice to the calls for justice for blogger Albert Ojwang, who was murdered while in police custody.

Charlene shared in the grief of the family of the blogger, appreciating that it was a difficult moment for them.

Appearing to qualify why she had not commented on the matter immediately it broke out, she said she had taken time to make sense of the cause and circumstances of Ojwang losing his life.

"I have struggled with deep moments of reflection for the past few days to try and find context around what happened. This is a painful, unfortunate and overwhelming loss, and we share our deepest condolences with his family," Charlene said.

At the same time, the president's child asked the public to shun extremist positions against the state, suggesting they were making the country uninhabitable.

She asked Kenyans to embrace tolerance in place of constant rage, calling it a "generational ceasefire" that would positively influence the coming generations.

"As a young Kenyan, I would also like to challenge the entire country to embrace a generational ceasefire! These regrettable incidents, extremism and growing intolerance should challenge all of us as a nation to interrogate the environment and culture we want to live in and create for the generations coming after us," she said.

Charlene's pronouncement came days after that of his father.

The president on Wednesday, June 11, issued an official statement. grieving with the family of Ojwang.

Ruto, speaking from a parental standpoint, observed that it was a difficult moment for the deceased parents, with his father having been mourning in the media owing to the pain caused by his son's tragic loss.

The president restated the reforms he had initiated to make the police an efficient arm of the administration, saying that Ojwang's death in custody annulled all those measures to improve the image of the service.

He directed the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) to expedite investigations and unravel the truth about the tragic incident and bring all the culprits before justice.

Ojwang died inside the cell at Central Police Station, Nairobi, where he was booked after being arrested in Homa Bay on Saturday, June 7.

The 31-year-old's arrest followed a complaint lodged against him by Deputy Inspector General of Police Eliud Lagat, who had decried being defamed on the X social network.

The complaint was taken over by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI)'s Serious Crimes Unit, whose officers travelled from Nairobi to Homa Bay, where the suspect was.

They arrested Ojwang in front of his family, with the officers later leaving with him to Nairobi.

Ojwang and the officers who had boarded a DCI vehicle arrived in the city moments past 9 pm that Saturday and was booked at the cell.

His death would come public a day later, sparking uproar from Kenyans, this prompting the police to lie that he succumbed to the injuries he sustained after banging his dead against the wall of the cell he was in.

The findings of the autopsy showed Ojwang was assaulted, his neck compressed killing himin the process.

Source: TUKO.co.ke