By Charles Fwamba
Muthangari police Station, Dagoretti North Constituency, led by Officer Commanding Station (OCS) Mr. Mike Lekalaile (Phone no. 0722318807) are carelessly harassing and arresting innocent Kenyans, and demanding a bribe of 3, 000 per person.
According to a local resident who was arrested yesterday and was released this morning after paying a bribe of 3,000, the police are working on orders from the OCS who sets a target for them on the amount of money they are supposed to raise.
Residents claim that the police picks people on the roadside anytime, pack them in their vehicle and take them to the station. From there, the cheapest freedom ticket is Ksh3, 000.
The money that is supposed to be the cash bail ends up in the pockets of the OCS and his officers. Sources working within the station report that per weekend, the Station makes close to a Ksh1.2million.
The law demands that any suspect, who gets cash bail, must be refunded after appearing in court. It is different in many police stations including Muthangari. The money ends up in the pocket of the OCS.
According to our snoop who spent a night in Muthangari police Station, tells us that a foreign man of Sudanese nationality was arrested and thoroughly beaten today morning. When other suspects tried to protest the beating since it is unconstitutional, a police officer by the name Mike drew a gun on them and threatened to shoot them. He told us that the cell was, and still is, overpopulated.
The residents are calling upon the Inspector General of police and Independent Police Oversight Authority (IPOA) to come to their rescue and save them from these money-sucking officers. They claim that majority of suspects are the poorest who cannot even manage two meals a day.
They are demanding for the immediate transfer of the OCS because he is the one that oversees the extortion exercise. They want EACC to send its officers to the police station in Lavington to assess the situation and save the poor Kenyans the ordeal.
S.J.H. says
Imagine it’s early afternoon on a Monday, 17 May 2021, over 3 years since this article appeared in the news….you are on a matatu. When you got on it there was only a few people. However as your journey continued, it got fuller and fuller until it was completely full and then a policeman from Muthangarie Police Station in Nairobi pulled the matatu you are on over. Everyone including you were taking to the station. Then the officers there tell you that you must give a Ksh. 3000 bribe or be put in the cell. One after another of the other passengers pay the bribe. However, you don’t have it. You frantically call what family you have. They scrape together Ksh. 1500. But it’s not enough, so into the jail cell you go.. You make attempts after attempts to appeal to the officers. But to no avail. You even try and speak to them about your Christian beliefs. One of the officer’s tells you without any fear of God that he/she is a policeman and not a believer. Finally, the afternoon is now evening. The police offer you a get out of jail card. (But it’s not free! This is not the game called Monopoly. This is real life. It’s too real!!) The officers tell you to give them your phone and the little money you collected and you can leave. They tell you to take your SIM card out and give the phone to them. You are free. You know your phone, the only real thing you own in this world, will most likely be sold before you even get home to your one room flat.
How many more X’s does this have to keep happening? It’s been over 3 years since this article first appeared in the news. And nothing, and I do mean nothing, has changed. Will it ever change? You and I know the answer. And the only thing that helps you move on is knowing that one day there will be a reckoning. The Word of God, which the one officer, so arrogantly blew off, say’s, “….when I tried to understand all this, it was oppressive to me till I entered the sanctuary of God; then I understood their final destiny. Surely You place them on slippery ground; You cast them down to ruin. How suddenly are they destroyed, completely swept away by terrors! As a dream when one awakes, so when you arise, O Lord, you will despise them as fantasies…. Those who are from you will perish; You destroy all who are unfaithful to you. (Psalm 73:16-20, 27).
(Posted by a concerned foreign resident who has lived here for over 30 years…)
Njex says
Muthangari police station is just trash, there’s this lady Askari with four to six lines on her head…she feels herself to the core,so does the other male called Njoro,ata bribe ikue 200 hawezi kubali kutoka mkono bure…I mean,and the many business they are running left,right and centre na pesa ya bribe.
Just to let you know,Earth is waiting …sooner or later!