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

[Badru Ntege]

John

Someone told me they call it TKK over there.  You see unfortunately in 
the interest of valuing our time we law abiding citizens are sometimes 
driven to giving the ocassional bribe to traffic police.   The gamble 
was you knew no one and you would do a quick mental arithmetic and dig 
deep in your pocket to prevent the night in the cell, however you  put 
your IT tool (mobile phone ) to good use.

In the old days that would be a night in the cell and a worthless 
caution in the morning or an apology. 


John Walubengo 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... 
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> 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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