Via Eric Ndavi on Facebook
Hey, Kenyan travelers, here’s a new one from the Shithole.
You go to the JKIA airport in a taxi. You shuka from the cab and go through that fake human screening thingy as your cab goes through the “High-tech screening” device.
You chill as all other cars pass through -except your Cabbie-guy. You take a look and there’s a cop and a senior cop inspector yelling at your cabbie guy. You gesture “What’s up?” from the waiting area. (Meanwhile the flight check -in is about to close in 5 minutes!) The cop and his Boss drive over with your Cabbie to the waiting area.
They hold up a roll of weed wrapped in toilet tissue. They claim they found it in the back pocket of the front passenger seat. Cab guy says it’s not his. This is his first trip of the day, and the car has just come from carwash. Cops tell him to either confess to the crime or blame it on his passenger -Me???
Me? Why the eff would I be taking weed to Coasto?
If I did, why wouldn’t I just walk it through the fake-ass “Shuka kwa gari and tembea-through the scanner” machine?
In a nutshell. The Cabbie was framed. The weed was planted. He had to part with 5k or face an international drug-trafficking charge. Or Blame it on me. He didn’t. Tell your cab guys to not let these airport-cops search their vehicles without keeping an eye on it. Friends, if your Cabbie get framed, ensure he’s not the guy to frame you to save his skin. Also look at the back pocket of the front seats.
The struggle in this shithole will not end soon. But let’s start here.