Thread by @BruceOnduru

My experience with insecurity.
Wednesday evening my friend and I came from a church fellowship and since my friend’s apartment had a blackout and he had work to do on his laptop, he drove to my place to work. We were busy working and taking breaks to have manly conversations till

3 am when my friend decided to rest in the couch. Earlier in the night I had asked my friend if his car which was parked outside our gate had a car alarm, I had never asked him that before. He said it did and I mentioned that before we sleep we would need to check on the car and

he agreed citing that in his mind he wasn't settled as well over the car. Shortly after that car conversation my friend fell asleep as I completed my work. At about 3.35 am I submitted my work and work up my friend to check on the car. He is a deep sleeper so he didn't and

I decided to go alone. I decided to make use of the key-hole and as you probably are already preempting, yes, i couldn't see the car. Faintly, I turned the gate key to open the gate and contrary to my wish that it was a dream, it was real the car wasn't there. I ran to the house

And woke my friend up this time not giving his deep sleeper thing a chance. I picked the car key and my friends phone as he ran to confirm. I found it friend with his hands on his head and my heart sank. He was mute and confused, I was composed maybe the difference being the

Fact that he was the car owner. We saw a car ahead and my friend was convinced it was his car and we chased a car which wasn't the guy’s on foot. At the police station the police were cold and indifferent, they took their sweet time writing the statement. “Mtarudi asubuhi, we

Circulate,” the police woman said. I was like do you realize this is a toyata fielder we are talking of? Where do you get the audacity to say turudi asubuhi? I asked myself those questions coz I had no energy to verbalize them. My everyday bodaboda guy was so reluctant to ride us

Around beyond the police station. I resolved to have us literally look for the car on foot(desperation is bad) at this point my friend was losing hope and wanted us to go back to the house. I remembered I had another friend around who had a car who didn't take 5 minutes to come

From 4.20 to 6 am we checked every corner of Juja for the car- from highpoint to gachororo to oasis to mungedho and at this point we were convinced the thieves had had enough time to escape so we went back to my place. Hopeless, broken and dejected, my friend decided to check

Behind the building and lo and behold the car was there. How did it get there? How did it leave the front of the gate? The doors were open, the music system was gone, the ignition was dismantled and the wires were hanging. That thing people do in movies to escape with cars was

The thing we were seeing. I broke down in gratitude. I had cursed and prayed simultaneously. I felt bad and the thought that my friend’s car was stolen at my place was too heavy to bear. Thoughts of how I would be the chief suspect crossed my mind. How comes he asked about the

Alarm for the first time? How comes he decided to check on the car before he slept? ( though previously when he visited at my previously apartment I had often ensured we checked the car). When I saw that car I literally cried myself in Thanksgiving. We decided to go and report

That we had found the car and what ensued surprised me. The woman we had found at dawn when we reported did not even let us say a thing when we got there. “Nyinyi ni wale wa gari? Mkuje saa mbili sio saizi. Guys, it was 6.30am. We had reported a stolen car at 3.50 am and we are

being told to come from 8am. I was shocked at the kind of people in our forces, I am certain there are diligent officers but what we experienced should not be an everyday occurrence. Response to such issues should be faster and I am tagging @NPSOfficial_KE to have crime response

improved. I am glad we found the car but at least there should have been officers coming to the scene and seeing what happened and probably dust prints to find the perpetrators but here we were told to just go as that was okay. If you are in Juja, especially gate C area ensure

your car in is parked in a locked place, they will steal it. If it weren't for the cut out and the anti-theft feature in that car my friend would be back to futsubishi gang. The whole experience was traumatizing and I hope the safety situation in our country improve #safety