My mob-injustice experience

Bodaboda riders causing havoc along Thika road.
Tuesday 3, 2016

This is a date i am going to not only remember but also mark in the next 10 calendars.
I experienced one of the craziest days and i can say that it was quite a lesson.
One thing is for sure that i am a very lucky and blessed chap, very lucky.
So i had a mid-morning breakfast with the lovely Lucy, huyu ni 'burnt' kapsaaa! She is a very lovely lady, great character and company, caught up on past days as we enjoyed a view of the city from my favourite place. (Yaani ata mimi niko na favourite place in the CBD).
Later on i had lunch with my bro Steve (ule jamaa wa kukeep time hahaha), at the same place where i have done some of the best thinking, great innovations and ofcourse replied to serious whatsapp messages hehe.....
After that at about 2.30 i decided i had to get back to the house before heading back to town later in the evening.
I did not immediately understand what was happening but there was traffic to and from town and Pangani and that immediately pissed me. However i managed to get through and shortly after i was at Roysambu.

Drama
On getting at TRM, all vehicles stopped because roads had been blocked by bodaboda operators  from Githurai 44 and Roysambu area. The men were apparently demonstrating because of the killing of their three colleagues in two months. They also complained that some thugs were let free after being arrested a few hours earlier.
Hiyo yote ni siasa if you ask me, but because they had blcoked bothe sides of the road i decided why not take a video and send it to Eugene in the office as i try get good photos.
I therefore took the vid and immediately sent it, that done, i decided to take a photo  but on taking the photo,  the 50+ bodaboda riders came to me claiming they did not want anyone taking photos so its not taken to the media.
*Too late i think, so i was manhandled and nikapata mangumi kama 27 hivi as i tried to plead my case. Luckily one who had long dreadlocks (Rasta lives) came to my rescue and took away my phones and the money in my pocket before the others who were struggling to get into my pockets could.
So nikasuguliwa kichwa na ngumi kadhaa and was saved when Kasarani police station officers came and dispersed them with teargas!
Hivo ndio kulienda, i was really shakend but i thank God i survived, oh and yes the good rasta man gave me back my stuff after the whole experience and ofcourse i tipped him.
He saved me.
Watu wa Roysambu, anyone who knows him mwambie nashukuru for standing up against over 50 riders in my defence.
As for the bodaboda riders, people demonstrate trying to get solutions and that solution is got when covered by the media.
If you want private demos do it hapo kwa pillow hehehe, poleni!
So now lemme try get rest, bado naumwa where the ngumis landed and i do not want to be  online when people like Njau, Churii na Kiragu tear me apart!

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