This archive report was first published on 20 April 2020.
On Saturday, April 18, 2020, Eko Dydda's wife, Sylvia, was in dire need of medication due to her high blood pressure and heart pulse issues. Eko, being the caring husband he is, decided to go out and buy the necessary medication for his wife. He first visited a pharmacy near their neighborhood but couldn't find the medication. He then decided to drive to Nairobi CBD to purchase the medication.
On his way home, Eko got a puncture at around 6:30 pm and by the time he had fixed it, it was about 6:50 pm. He continued with the journey home and on reaching Ngong Road, near Coptic Hospital, he found a police roadblock at around 7:10 pm. He was stopped and arrested by the police, who had commissioned a breakdown truck to tow cars violating the curfew to Kilimani Police Station.
On reaching the Police Station, Eko was booked in the cells. His wife's medication was left inside the car. Early Sunday morning, Sylvia's neighbor took her to the Police Station because she couldn't walk properly. The officer manning the Occurrence Book asked if she had money to pay bail for her husband, following which he would be required to appear at Milimani Court on Monday.
Sylvia, being the determined woman she is, decided to secretly record their conversation. She left again to go and withdraw Ksh10,000, then returned and gave the officer the requested bail of Ksh5,000. The officer, however, told her to get out and come back with cash, despite her having already paid the bail. She was eventually forced to give him the cash, and he started opening drawers, only to take out a brown envelope and put the money inside.
After waiting for an hour, the officer brought Eko out from the cells, handed him the receipt, and told him to go pay the towing charges to the breakdown vehicle operators. They eventually found the breakdown vehicle people behind the toilets, and Sylvia was able to get a receipt for the payment. Eko was then re-arrested, and they took back the receipts they had given them, claiming that the bail had been cancelled by the boss.
On their way home, Eko received two phone calls asking them to go back and collect the car. Eko told the caller he'd already picked the car. Then they asked him about the receipt for the bail, and Eko told them he had collected the receipt as well. The caller's phone number was 0721254408, and his name, according to m-pesa, is James Samira.
They arrived home and Eko showered and slept. The police, however, kept calling. They ignored their calls. Eko received calls from four different numbers calling from Kilimani, one of them from a female officer. She told Eko that someone who was in the cells with him had died and he should go back to record a statement. They gave him a number (0756479296) to call when he arrived.
While on the call, they overheard someone say,
