Facing the music or is it a figment of imagination?

NAIROBI: John Maina writes he and his cronies were driving through Ahero, on the Kisumu-Nairobi highway, when they were accosted by police who made a very startling demand: They wanted to see their Public Performance Licence from the Music Copyright Society of Kenya (MCSK) for their private double-cabin van. And for good measure, the MCSK folks were in tow.

After a protracted argument that their van was private, not public, and that they were willing to turn off the radio set in their possession, if the entertainment was a breach of the law, they were told they could only leave after paying a fine of Sh3,500 for the offence.