Money bags: How cops are minting millions from Covid-19 drunkards

On July 23, at 7:08pm Jack Omondi (not his real name) was arrested by police officers outside a bar in Katani Road, Syokimau. Together with six other drunks, he was bundled into the back of a white double cab with civilian number plates. Destination, a police station in Machakos.

“We were thrown into the cells without being booked into the Occurrence Book (OB). But the female officer at the desk wrote down our names and ID numbers on a piece of paper. After 30 minutes, a new batch of walevi was thrown into the cell. By 11pm, the cell was full. I counted 27 men.”