[kictanet] My Evening in Jail (O.K, next to Jail)

[David Sparrow Malaba]

Dear Walu,
You must thank God many times, that your dear wife
knew someone important Cop, otherwise, Imagine hungry
Matheris would have worked on you promptly each
wanting to extract something good from you, before you
are engulfed by ...................

Pole Walu...

David

 John Walubengo <jwalu at yahoo.com> wrote:

> O.K, before the moderator tells me to take this
> conversation off the list - I wish to promise that
> it will
> end with an IT twist... 
> 
> Yesterday evening, I was stopped by the Traffic
> Police at
> Madaraka Roundabout (next to Strath University). As
> a law
> abiding citizen, I stopped and without being asked,
> I
> opened the boot, stepped out and handed over my
> Driving
> Licence.
> 
> After 5minutes (eternity for me!) I realised that
> the young
> police officer was struggling with his torch trying
> to
> shine the lamp on my annual renewal licences.  I
> moved
> closer and he seemed happy to have discoverd and
> even
> happier to confirm that I had FORGED it (what???).
> He was
> alleging that it expired last year and since I was
> the
> clever-one, i simply extended the year by
> overwriting the
> original deadline and replacing it with next year
> (i.e from
> 2006 to 2008 expiry date)
> 
> I tried to say indeed the overwriting was truly
> there, but
> it must have been done by the KRA (Kenya Revenue
> Officials,
> they are human and can make mistakes) but he was
> adamant
> that I must visit their Police station and be
> checked in. I
> tried to say that if I had committed a traffic
> offence , I
> would have expected that he would write me a
> ticket/summons? to appear in court sometime later in
> the
> week and stand accused awaiting
> defence/judgement/penalty..(lawyers could correct me
> on
> that).
> 
> Later on he agreed that he will write the Summons
> from the
> Poice Station and so we drove to the nearest police
> station
> for this summons to be written.  We reached there
> (Nyayo
> Stadium Police Station) and he asked me to sit right
> next
> to the Cells (which were full of some very mean
> looking
> 'Matheri' type of characters).
> 
> After 5min, he came back to say that his Boss, the
> Officer
> in Charge of the Station is not in and so I have to
> be
> locked in until tomorrow morning, when he will come
> and
> write me the summons (hallooo??- next to THOSE
> guys?).
> 
> To cut down the story, my wife new someone, who knew
> some
> Senior cop, whom she  called and he eventually gave
> instructions to have me released - on Condition that
> I
> apologise for the offense (O.K. now what had I done
> again?).
> 
> Here is the IT angle - isn't it time their website
> www.kenyapolice.go.ke gave the Citizens the correct
> position regarding Police Procedures for
> Civil/Criminal
> offence? I mean I never knew a traffic offence could
> earn
> you 1-night accomodation with General Ali's (the
> Police
> Commissioner) guests. Further more, when are those
> so
> called Tamper-proof Driving Licences going to hit
> the
> market?
> 
> walu.
> nb: the overwriting was explained to me by KRA this
> morning
> - they say that it often happens and all they do is
> to
> double-stamp the affected license which they
> actually done-
> but I never knew the implication of that
> double-stamp.  Am
> sure the young Police Officer had seen the
> double-stamping
> but was not in a hurry to educate me - he preferred
> to drag
> me to next to his cells for whatever (you are
> allowed to
> speculate) reasons.
> 
> 
> 
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