Where is NTSA as goons take charge of highways at night?

Last Sunday night, hoodlums blocked the Nairobi-Nakuru highway around Kangemi and erected a toll station where every motorist was ordered to make a payment for safe passage.

Those who resisted, as I did, were threatened by a twig-wielding goon, while another hurled rocks to block one from driving on. One inebriated goon came to the window and told me they were collecting money to take to the hospital a boy who had been knocked down. I didn’t see any boy there, but there was a body covered under a blanket.

I managed to extricate myself from the chaos unscathed, but the memories of terror lingers.

Now that the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) have inaugurated vehicles for highway patrols, we should expect that any prospects of goons taking over highways shall be a thing of the past.

But I could be mistaken; NTSA’s primary interest has been in those drinking and driving, not drunks who threaten sober drivers. A friend that I told about my ordeal said those goons should count themselves lucky as he wasn’t there; he would have knocked down anyone who stood in his way.

I was too sober to have attempted that, but it certainly does sound like something many would do in self-defence.