Is there a motorist in the house who has never given the police a bribe? Let me see by show of hands. We have seen it on our tv's police receiving bribes...and they do it every day. Now my question is, why do the police look so poor, so miserable. They are either thin , too fat they look famished and slovenly, they smell like @kiash's
goats! Both literary and figuratively...It was declared that in their dress code men should not wear different two different socks...like go to work with one foot in blue and the other other one in red...I couldn't believe I was reading this...even the local village madman who has s tendency of wearing socks only never confuses the pair's of socks people offer him. He puts on the same colour of socks, the same design...oh my...God save our country...

Their bosses...not the ksh 50 bob collector...

The haggard ones you write about are regular police.
The only thin traffic police are the rookies. The vets are fat, happy with shiny cheeks, like overfed babies
walk into any station and go to the traffic dept then bring us a report.
aliyekonda ni anayemalizwa na utamu wa raha zake.. iwe ni uraibu wa mvinyo ama ngono.

I have never bribed!

The traffic enforcement system is rigged against the motorist right from the word go. From experience, these guys more or less know all the matatus in their routes. Whenever they see a new one, they'll arrest your driver on trumped up charges (like a worn out spare tyre) just so that the owner can present themselves eti 'wajue ni nani'. The more brazen ones will keep harassing your driver, especially if you insist on not 'tipping', in an attempt to force him to quit. When this happened severally to me, one of them had the audacity to tell me to my face 'eti wewe futa hiyo dereva yako tukupatie dereva mzuri upee yeye kazi'. The shock must've been evident in my silence. Of course I never acceded to this. Nilisema ka mbaya ni mbaya, played some dirty tricks of my own, earned my respect.