The Swahili always say that “Asiyeskia la mkuu huvunjika guu.” He who does not listen to the voice of reason will always end up in a mess or deep trouble.
Such is the case of renowned Slum Millionaire George Maina who was spalshed by Police bullets during a robbery ordeal.
Details have now emerged of how his family members and close friends pleaded with him to quit his thug life and how all their pleas fell on deaf ears.
Maina often defied them. What hurt even more is the fact that His friends went to the extent of helping him to repair his broken down lorry only for it to turn out that the Lorry they repaired eventually led him to his death scene last Sunday.
Maina’s friends acknowledge that he was a known criminal both to his friends and police officers. Maina, 32, was together with six other men on a robbery mission at a warehouse in Industrial Area when they were ambushed by police from the Industrial Area police who shot them all dead.
Maina’s family also used a police officer at the Nairobi area to persuade Maina to quit the criminal world but he was defiant.
He was shot dead barely a month after he promised us that he was a reformed person.
The lorry which police found at the godown and which was being used to transport the stolen goods was the one that the friends helped him to repair after he vowed never to get involved in robbery.