Fake news headline, GSU visit to Standard then Ojwang's murder - The Standard


A fake news headline implicating a Kenyan police official led to a GSU raid on a newspaper office and is now linked to a murder.
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Deputy Inspector General Kenya Police Service Eliud Lagat during a press briefing  following Albert Omondi Ojwang's death in police custody at Central Police station, Nairobi. June 9, 2025. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]

Disturbing details have emerged linking Albert Ojwang’s brutal murder to a highly unusual police visit to the Standard Group offices in Nairobi, sparked by a fake newspaper front page headline wrongly attributed to the media house and implicating Deputy Inspector General of Police Eliud Lagat. 

Two months ago, on April 22, 2024, officers from the elite General Service Unit (GSU) stormed the Standard Group’s offices in Nairobi to investigate a fake front-page headline circulating online, bearing The Standard’s branding and the provocative title, “The Richest Cop,” linked to Lagat. 

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