martins story is a sad one we buried him on sato.the thugs didn't have anything to do with the car stalling.he's mots just stalled something that can happen to all of us,the messed up part is the thugs were lying in wait.it did not take more than 5 minutes for his friends to come to the spot and by that time marto had already been attacked and the thugs fled.from the look of things these guys are permanently based there,and the police know about this it's a pity nobody is doing anything about it.

It's the fan belt that katikad. was it a Mercedes ama a BMW?

This issue is being exaggerated. Just received an e-mail containing this story. Well, it is true; these stories only make news when the middle and upper class are affected. I am sorry for that dude, no one deserves to die that way. My condolences to the family and friends

Every day, we receive a min.of 5 corpses from the slums who have been murdered, but they hardly make news. So many Kenyans, especially in the slums, get killed everyday, why is this making news? It is just not in Uhuru Highway, it is everywhere in Nai.

They kill the rich when they want attention. He was in a Merc, they did not need any another reason. They are just young, hopeless dudes looking for a meal. They do not do it on purpose. Some are even kind (or callous, depending on how you look at it) enough to bring the victim to us or they call us to take the victim to hospital or they just tell us to come pick the corpse.

Believe it or not, by looking at extent of injuries on a corpse/extent of viciousness, you can tell whether murder was intentional or the attack was just meant to impair the victim. For most cases, it is just meant to impair. If I get a chance, I will try and explain more. However, I am not disputing that there are those who do kill just for the sake of it.

And there is nothing like ‘senseless death’. Death is not supposed to make sense; it is just supposed to happen.

I am not a psychiatrist or a criminologist, nor am I defending them. I assist a certain pathologist at the local mortuaries, my work has taught me a thing or two about Nai crime life and how these guys think.

@xtina; The insecurity at Uhuru highway is not being highlited because it is affecting "the rich" in our society. NO! It is because this road is one the three major arteries that feed people into the city....the other two being Thika road and Waiyaki Way.

This insecurity is affecting close to one third of the people who travel to the CBD each day.

And the most affected are pedestrians - notice that motorists are mostly attacked when they are immobile [or forcibly] immobilised

@xtina...thats a large dose of reality check to keep us in perspective, so we focus us not only on this sad event but at the larger picture of insecurity at the macro level. BTW, min. 5 pips B.I.D. daily is mind numbing for any hosi, considering others never reach there...

@kazikwisha am glad something is being done, and not finger pointing all over as we kenyans (esp middle-class) are wont to do. This is the pro-activness we need rather than lamenting month in month out the way that thread of road accidents has been each time an accident occurs.
Such efforts have now won u a participant in me hii sunday.