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The Day The Kenyan Government Unleashed Thugs On Its Innocent Citizens Along Thika Road

BY Steve Biko Wafula · March 12, 2025 06:03 am

On March 11, 2025, Thika Road transformed from a bustling artery of commerce into a dystopian playground for goons, and the Kenyan government—ever the maestro of chaos—deserves a standing ovation for its starring role in this tragic comedy. What began as a typical Tuesday spiraled into a spectacle of daylight robbery, violence, and sheer lawlessness, with motorists and pedestrians alike left to fend off marauding thugs like extras in a low-budget apocalypse flick.

Videos of the mayhem flooded on various online platforms, showing gangs brazenly snatching phones, looting vehicles, and turning the Thika Superhighway into their buffet—all while the sun shone brightly, as if mocking the absence of order. Across various online platforms, the trend #ThikaRoad trended, not for its scenic views, but for the outrage of a nation abandoned by its so-called protectors.

Let me paint you the scene: between Allsops and Muthaiga, close enough to the General Service Unit and traffic police headquarters to hear the echoes of their morning coffee breaks, chaos reigned supreme. Gangs, with the audacity of reality TV contestants, stormed cars, smashed windows, and helped themselves to valuables as if it were a government-sanctioned clearance sale.

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Eyewitnesses, bless their traumatized souls, took to online platforms to warn others to steer clear, with one user practically begging the National Police Service for “serious backup.” Backup? Oh, how quaint. The police, it seems, were too busy perfecting their tear gas aim for the next peaceful protest to bother with this little hiccup of rampant crime.

And where, pray tell, was the government in all this? Likely huddled in some plush office, drafting another memo about how “robust security measures” are keeping Kenyans safe. The irony is thicker than the traffic jam that paralyzed Thika Road as the violence unfolded. Reports trickling in—because apparently, we’re relying on citizen journalists now—linked the chaos to attendees of President Ruto’s rally, a delightful twist suggesting that the goons might’ve been on the payroll of someone with a fancy title. Police allegedly stood by, twiddling their thumbs or perhaps admiring the choreography of the looting. It’s almost poetic: a government that leaps into action to abduct Finance Bill protesters but goes conveniently blind when its own rally-goers turn rogue.

The police, those gallant knights in faded uniforms, deserve a special shoutout for their Oscar-worthy performance in “Failure to Protect: The Thika Chronicles.” When Gen Z took to the streets last year, these brave souls were out in full force—tear gas, rubber bullets, and abductions galore. But today, when innocent Kenyans were being robbed in broad daylight, the cavalry was nowhere to be found. Perhaps they were on a tea break, or maybe they mistook the screams for a new hit single. Whatever the excuse, their absence was deafening, leaving citizens to wonder if the police handbook has a chapter titled “Selective Duty: Only Show Up for Political Points.”

Meanwhile, the goons—those unsung heroes of government negligence—operated with the precision of a heist movie crew, minus the charm of George Clooney. Videos showed them entering vehicles like they’d been handed VIP passes, while others wielded stones and sheer bravado to assert their dominion. Who needs law and order when you’ve got a government that’s mastered the art of looking the other way? Posts on various online platforms, speculated that these weren’t just random thugs but state-sponsored agents of chaos, unleashed to remind us all who’s really in charge. And honestly, after today’s display, it’s hard to argue otherwise.

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The fallout was predictable: traffic ground to a halt, businesses shuttered in fear, and Kenyans took to social media to vent their fury. “Suddenly hakuna police, GSU, rubber bullets ama tear gas canisters to disperse them, sindio?” one online user fumed, capturing the collective rage of a nation betrayed. Another