On November 22, 2021, Kenyan lawyer Cliff Ombeta took to social media to warn citizens against accepting arrest from unidentified persons in the streets.
He claimed that it has become difficult to differentiate between genuine police officers and dangerous thugs camouflaged in sleek Subaru SUVs.
According to Ombeta, should citizens encounter such a situation, the best thing to do is to scream and call for help because it could be a possible abduction.
“Listen carefully, if a Subaru blocks you and they try to arrest you, as long as they are not in official outfits or have not identified themselves, resist, fight, scream and call for help,” he wrote.
Ombeta's warning comes in the wake of the recent disappearance of an alleged Ethiopian businessman, Samson Tekklemichael, who was picked up in Nairobi's Kileleshwa area on Friday.
A viral video captured the incident, showing a traffic policeman stopping a Bentley in the middle of the road before the occupant of the vehicle is picked up by two men and bundled into another vehicle.
Tekklemichael's wife, Milen Mezgebo, later said that her husband called and told her that unknown people had kidnapped him.
