Weeks ago as Mr Kamau Mburu and other people were walking home shortly past 11pm, they were rounded up in Kirigiti and taken to Kiambu Police Station.
At the station, the farmhand and fellow “suspects” found more people, mostly young people who had been picked up from other shopping centres in Kiambu Sub-County.
NON-STATUTORY FEE
Mr Mburu says before being booked that Saturday, the officers who arrested them began telling them to pay Sh1,000 in order to secure their release and avoid the embarrassment of being detained and paraded in court.
While some paid the non-statutory fee, Mr Mburu and few others did not and so they were booked for being drunk and disorderly, an offence he says he never committed.
They were then taken to the cells awaiting their day in court on Monday.