Police harassment

On the 26th of May, 2008, at about 3.35 pm, along Uhuru Highway approaching the Waiyaki Way/Museum Hill roundabout, we experienced another kind of police harassment/intimidation.

Considering Nairobi's infamous traffic conditions and the fact that this car, a VW Passat, metallic silver coloured with license number KAU 415L came weaving through quite orderly traffic with a 'person' (cop?), in the back seat waving something which at first glance could be mistaken for a gun, at nearby cars, ours among them, to give them way!

At second glance, it turned out that the 'thing' being waved at us had an aerial sticking out and that it was one of those unwieldy walkie talkies that our cops use. Of course, as soon as drivers noticed this man intimidating them and the way the driver of this Passat was weaving through traffic, they braked and let them pass.

There was probably an emergency that these cops were heading to, but, why wasn't it an official 'GK' vehicle and/or have a siren on? And, when one takes into consideration the security situation in our capital, waving something out of the window at other drivers, which at first glance looked like a gun, is not very nice and this is putting it mildly!

Is there no end to our fast approaching 'police state'? Instead of 'serving' the public, these cops of ours are behaving no better than the thugs they are supposed to be protecting us from. Only the Almighty can help us, with such cops in our midst!

And with regard to the above, will anybody do any investigations given the details and an explanation as to what it was all about? Or will it be 'classified' information hidden from public view?

Scared,
Razia.