A Boda Boda rider cheated death by a whisker on Thursday evening, after a man whose daughter he had just dropped at Syokimau in Machakos county, fired at him in rage.
The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) says Wycliffe Atendo, an online nduthi operator in Nairobi had received a request from a client to drop her at the White House estate, in Syokimau.
Atendo is said to have picked the client, a 21-year-old lady, outside a pharmacy along Kimathi street and set off for the 20-kilometre journey.
DCI, in a post on their social media pages, said the duo arrived at the agreed address and “as the woman was about to pay him, a man quickly emerged from the gate and gave her a beating like a rented mule, before showing her into the compound.”
As the nduthi man pondered his next move, police say, the enraged man whipped out a firearm and fired at him instead, making him flee the scene for dear life.
“The rider reported the incident at Syokimau police station and our officers responded swiftly,” noted the DCI.
Police later established that the man was a military doctor who was armed with a Glock pistol and 42 rounds of 9mm calibre.
The man was arrested and handed over to military police for further action, in accordance with military discipline.
