You may have noticed a young KQ pilot in the obituaries this past week. His is a sad tale but one worth narrating because it could save your life:

Martin (his name) went for a drink with his buddies last Saturday in some joint in Lang’ata. At around 11pm, like all young people do, they decided to change the venue and go to Westlands. Since the other guys had drinks to finish up, Martin decided to proceed to Westlands & jumped into his car-a new Mercedes hardly 6 months old. As he approached the NIC/Bunyala road roundabout, he noticed his car was losing momentum and it finally stalled in the middle of the road.

He quickly called the buddies he had left in Langata and told them that his car had stalled. These guys arrived in less than 10 minutes only to find Martin brutally attacked and robbed. They rushed him to Nairobi Hospital and he underwent emergency operation but unfortunately he died a few hours later. A senseless loss of young life.

I share this with you so that you may be informed that Uhuru highway is a den of murderous robbers. It is the second time I have heard of such an incident. The last one was a few months ago when my former colleague was leaving a gym just near the NIC bank. On the same roundabout, a ladies car had stalled at about 9:00pm. The goons attacked her and were now dragging the kicking and screaming woman into the bush to possibly rape her. Ken was brave enough to hoot like mad and flash his lights at the guys and they let go of the woman. He opened his passenger door and she jumped in and they fled to the central police station......

May be Martin may still be alive if only he had abandoned his car and run towards Nakumat uhuru highway where there guards - but this is just a may be! He definitely was not aware that he was in grave danger as he sat in his car to make the call to his friends.

Clearly, Uhuru Highway is not a place for your car to stall at night.

Be warned and take care.

Source: unknown but believed credible

What is sad is that it is just malice, why rob then kill a person. That is the thing I don't understand.

Knew the dude, was ahead of me in High school...RIP Martin Njuma.

Very sad indeed. RIP Martin and condolences to his family...

Those Uhuru Highway stories are very true btw, i heard of a dude who was clobbered to dead at about 7pm along Uhuru highway last year,yet he had nothing 'stealable' he had left all his stuff in his hotel room and gone for an evening stroll only to never return to his room in a city centre hotel! Imagine at 7..all for nothing? Uhuru highway is a danger zone for motorists if your car stalls,pedestrians after dark and a dangerous rape zone for women(there's a time some organisation had put up posters warning women to stay off Uhuru park and Uhuru highway as it's a rapists den). Why do these thugs steal and kill?cant they just steal and let you go peacefully now that they've accomplished their evil mission? Ands is it that the Kenyan cops cant deal with this menace once and for all?wameshindwa na kazi? Ama they're waiting for more lives to be lost before they act??NKT!

If you want to get the real picture of how this place is unsafe check police records for the past three months...i bet just browsing through the reports could make you cut weight by half due to the depression it induces.

These people are probably the most hurtless and numb human beings you'll ever come across...and it gets worse if they feel you are doing fine.Intelligentsia couldnt be more right if something happens to your car along this stretch,just dash to the nearest lit place.Apparently they hide below the railwayline.