Homa Bay Woman Rep Bensouda kicked out of Nairobi Funeral Home

Activists mill around Homa Bay Woman Rep Bensouda./SCREENGRAB

Tensions ran high on Tuesday, June 10, 2025, when Homa Bay Woman Representative Joyce Atieno, also known as Bensouda, was forcibly ejected from Nairobi Funeral Home (formerly City Motuary) by a group of activists.

The incident followed the release of a postmortem report on the death of blogger Albert Ojwang.

The activists, visibly angry, confronted Atieno moments after the autopsy results were made public.

Atieno, who was at the funeral home to condole with the bereaved family, faced a hostile crowd.

Eyewitnesses say the activists demanded she leave immediately, leading to a chaotic scene.

Albert Ojwang, whose sudden death has sparked public outcry, was a teacher and a blogger from Homa Bay.

His family has been demanding answers, and the release of the autopsy report has only intensified the calls for justice.

The incident at the funeral home underscores growing tensions and mistrust surrounding Ojwang’s death.

Ojwang died from head injuries, neck compression, and multiple soft tissue trauma, a postmortem revealed.

Pathologists ruled out the narrative that self-inflicted injuries caused the death. He was hit in the head and strangled.

Further, he had multiple injuries on his hands.

Ojwang, who died in custody at the Central Police Station, was assaulted and suffered multiple body injuries, a team of pathologists led by government pathologist Bernard Midia concluded.

“He had head and neck injuries. There were other multiple injuries consistent with assault,” he said.

He made the remarks after completing the postmortem on Ojwang’s body on Tuesday.

He insisted Ojwang did not hit himself on the wall as earlier reported in a police report.

“When we examined … the pattern of the injury, especially on the trauma I found on the head…. Hitting against a blunt substance like a wall would have a pattern,” he said.

Midia said that in the event of one hitting themselves on a wall, frontal bleeding on the head would be seen.

“But the bleeds that we found on the scalp…on the skin of the head were spaced, including on the face, sides of the head, and the back of the head,” he explained. 

The pathologist, who conducted the procedure alongside the family’s representative Mutuma Zambezi, dismissed the possibility of Ojwang injuring himself. 

“When we tie up together with other injuries that are well spread on parts of the body … including the upper limbs and the trunk … Then this is unlikely to be self-inflicted injury,” Midia said. 

The post-mortem findings contradict a police report on Sunday, where Ojwang' was reported to have hit his head on the wall of a cell at Central Police Station. 

Leaders and activists have urged calm and called for a transparent investigation to establish the truth.