"I took double shots of my favourite whiskey, and before I could lift my head to see the tall, cute girl who was holding my drink bottle, I was high," Martin, not his real name, says.
The 43-year-old journalist was explaining how he was drugged in a club near the OJ area, off Kiambu Road in Nairobi, on December 11, 2019.
Martin said he removed his card to pay so that he could leave immediately before he blacked out. However, he only remembers a stranger driving him out of the club in Kiambu County.
"I woke up the following day exhausted, sleepy, hungry, and shaking in my car at Kahawa. It was mid-day, and the light sun was inside my car," he says.
The well-known journalist said that he managed to drive home for more sleep. He woke up at 4 pm only to realise he did not have his phone.
"I picked up my other phone in the house to renew my sim card as I tried to recall yesterday's events. And immediately, text messages started flooding my phone with my ATM withdrawal notifications. At this point, I realised that I had lost my ATM cards," he said.
"I contacted the bank to stop all cash withdrawals. I also booked an OB and called a cop friend to start tracking down the suspects. I had already lost up to Sh97,000. "
The journalist said he learned from the texts that the funds were withdrawn from two supermarkets in Ruiru and Roysambu. There were also bank and M-Pesa withdrawals in Roysambu.
He picked up a cop friend and went to the Ruiru Supermarket in Kiambu where the lady had shopped.
"I noticed (on CCTV) the lady walking in the supermarket wearing a mask and a hood to cover her face. She shopped and left in a blue taxi, which was packed many metres away from the CCTV," he said.
They went to another supermarket in Roysambu.
"We were given the footage, which showed the taxi car she was using. The taxi driver took us to her home where we found an elderly woman and another one breastfeeding," Martin said.
"We couldn't believe they were the ones, but after an hour, we decided to search the house, and we found the furniture, electronics, and other items, which had been shopped using my bank card. The items were also captured in the footage."
They arrested the elderly lady, who was identified by the cashiers and a bank guard who saw her. "They said it was easy to identify her because she was very arrogant," Martin said.
The lady was arrested and explained that she was not alone in the plan.
She added that Martin was fixed by his longtime friends who invited him from town to the bypass club to watch Gatutura and Samido in the club that he was spiked.
"These were people I have known for years, and I trusted them more," he said.
Martin is not an isolated case. Nyaga, a married man with two children, also narrated the same story where he lost valuables and cash after his wife went home for vacation.
He is not sure how he arrived home with the girls who spiked him but had to take a loan to cover what happened.
"I am a consultant, and if this story comes out, I might lose the current or potential clients as well as my family," he said.