Corruption

A friend of mine had a son at university. One Wednesday his son decided to go to market in two to shop for clothes. Upon finishing shopping he was to go back to school. He decided to take a bodaboda this is means of transport usually used to move in towns for short distances. The rider of the bodaboda received him well kept her shopping on the back of the back and while ready to go the rider had a small bag which he gave him to hold so that he can ride freely. On reaching one of the major roundabout in the town they were stopped by plain clothes cops. The rider stopped and ran off but was caught. The boy was asked what he was carrying. He said the package belonged to the rider. The rider, of course, denied this. On opening it, it turned out to be bhang. His efforts to say it wasn’t his package fell on deaf ears and was taken to Central Police Station, but not booked. He was forced to call his parents for 100k to be released. The boy called the parents and they managed to raise the cash. The boy was forced to withdraw the money on his phone through an Mpesa shop. Throughout the cops never used their phones. Once he had done the withdrawal he was released and guess what? He saw the cops walking away with the rider to rob off another innocent person. Some cops came to him. They had seen the boy and felt sorry. They told him he was set up. Let’s talk to our boys to be careful. Even we ourselves should be cautious when taking bodabodas.”