Popular Gospel entertainer DJ Mo is using social media to illustrate what he claims is a case of police harassment.
According to the DJ, he was stopped by a Naivasha police officer, while driving in his car with his wife ‘Size 8’, for travelling at 117 km/h in a 110 km/h zone. After examining his licence, the officer offered to make the “ugly incident go away” in exchange for “something small”.
DJ Mo explains: “I refused to give a bribe because I do not believe in corruption. I said I would accompany the police to their station.
“The cop tried to get into my car but I wasn’t having any of it. There is no law that states a cop can ride in a car belonging to the arrested party,” he adds.
The System Unit DJ claims that the officer became irate at this point and added an accusation that the car’s windows were illegally tinted, after which six more officers arrived on the scene, having been summoned by their lone colleague, and bundled the entertainer into their Land Rover.
“I insisted on following the police car. That is when the policeman got mad, accused me of driving a car with tinted windows then called his 6 counterparts who roughly bundled me into their Landover,” he claims, adding: “I don’t understand why they would physically assault me like a criminal yet I had been corporative all along. Luckily some artistes who were driving from Kitale saw the drama and pulled to the side of the road. They witnessed the whole debacle and helped drive my car to the police station.”
The witnesses also took photographs of the incident; taking care to include the officers’ numbers. Some of the resulting images have been posted online.
Police ultimately dropped charges relating to the tinted windows and resisting arrest, but enforced the original speeding charge. DJ Mo paid Sh10,000 (£70), though it is currently unclear whether this was to cover a fine to settle the matter or bail while it is deferred.
