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.