IPOA opens investigation into the death of bodaboda rider in a police cell

Chairperson of the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) Ahmed Issack Hassan during the Missing Voices Annual Report Launch on brutal policing shedding light on Statistics and Trends of Extrajudicial Killings and Enforced Disappearances in Kenya 2024 on May 7, 2025. [Standard, Kanyiri Wahito]

Independent Policing and Oversight Authority (IPOA) has launched a probe into the death of bodaboda rider Leon Matoke while in police custody.

Leon is reported to have been taken into detention on Thursday, December 11, but was reported dead hours later, before his lifeless body was transferred to the Nairobi Funeral Home (City Mortuary).