THE REPUBLIC OF BRIBERY:
WHERE CORRUPTION WEARS UNIFORM AND THE PRESIDENT WATCHES IN SILENCE
I watched corruption unfold before my own eyes not in secret, not in whispers, but in broad daylight, on our roads, under the watch of the so-called law.
A traffic officer stopped our matatu, demanded KSh: 2,000 for a crime that doesn’t exist.
When the driver offered 500, the officer barked “peleka gari station.” Passengers an old sick man and a pregnant woman among them were dumped by the roadside like garbage.
And the “mkubwa” himself came to supervise the extortion.
This is not policing.
This is organized robbery in uniform.
And the worst part..???
Everyone in power knows.
- DP @kithureKindiki knows.
- CS @kipmurkomen knows.
- The PS @ray_omollo knows.
- And the knows because this rot is the new normal.
Our roads are now feeding troughs for uniformed criminals.
Each police checkpoint is a cash register for cartels wearing badges.
The bribe isn’t a side hustle anymore it’s a system, a chain that runs from the dusty highway to the clean suits in Nairobi.
When an officer dares to demand more than a matatu earns per trip, it tells you corruption isn’t just tolerated it’s protected.
It has sponsors.
It has managers.
It has politicians who eat off it.
The Interior Ministry has become a marketplace of impunity.
The Transport Ministry is a factory of excuses.
And the President , the man who promised a new dawn , is too busy campaigning for 2032 while citizens are being extorted in 2025.
You’ve turned the police into predators and Kenyans into prey.
You’ve turned justice into a joke.
And you’ve turned our highways into hunting grounds for hungry Officers who know they will never face any consequences.
Don’t tell us about digitizing government when you can’t even sanitize the police.
Don’t talk about the “Bottom-Up” economy when your officers are extorting matatus that carry the real hustlers.
If the President, the CS, and the PS have any shred of integrity left, let them come to Thika Road, stand by the GSU gate, and see the truth for themselves where the poor pay “daily taxes” to the corrupt.
Kenya is bleeding, not from poverty, but from theft in uniform.
And those in charge have blood on their hands.