Nobody can spend 34 days at Industrial Area Remand Prison, and want to go back to that Shit hole of a place, barely two weeks after gaining his freedom.
Well someone else can do that, but at least not governor Okoth Obado. Sources have it that the embattled Migori county boss tried to escape arrest using a taxi yesterday.
Obado was yesterday arrested in the basement of a five-star hotel in Nairobi but that didn’t go down without drama as he tried to escape in a taxi.
The governor, who has been charged with illegal possession of firearms at a Kibera court, had left an event, also attended by Deputy President William Ruto at the Hilton hotel, midway and was taken into custody as he was being driven away.
Police said Obado had called a taxi and asked the management of the hotel to allow it to drive into the basement, where he boarded it, ready to leave. Obado was at the hotel to attend a function where Mr Ruto was meeting a group of international development partners.
The governor left before the function ended. Escorted by his bodyguards, he walked towards the VIP washrooms on the first floor. He then went to the basement, taking many journalists, who had got wind of his impending arrest and were waiting, by surprise.
Minutes after Obado left the room where the function was going on, five plain-clothes officers with walkie-talkies came into the hotel and were directed to where he had gone. They followed him.
News of Obado’s impending arrest attracted many people, including journalists who were covering events in other boardrooms at the hotel. They went to camp near the door of the room of the DP’s function on the mezzanine floor.
An armed officer who realised the governor’s seat was empty followed him to the basement and stopped the taxi. The officer asked the governor to step out. The two walked up a ramp to the ground floor to the entrance opposite International House.
The governor was then taken into a waiting police car and driven to the offices of the Special Crimes Prevention Unit (SCPU) off Ngong Road. He was later moved to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) headquarters along Kiambu Road.