Escalating Crime: Who Would Want To Eliminate A Traffic Policeman?

A bizarre shooting incident took place in Kenya's otherwise quiet sleepy coastal town this past weekend.

A lone gunman waited for a traffic policeman to come out of a restaurant and then shot him dead at point blank range. This latest chilling encounter raises a lot of questions but most of all one burning one; who would want a traffic policeman dead and why?

It would be understandable if the policeman involved dealt with criminals but traffic policemen only deal with matatu drivers and touts. There is of course the possibility that the hit had nothing to do with the man's occupation and could have been linked to his private life. Kenya has become notorious these days for hits targeted at people who can't keep their hands off other people's wives.

This brings to mind one recent early morning encounter on Riara Road in Nairobi where a man was car-jacked and driven to Ngong Road, near the war cemetery where he was given a chance to say goodbye to his lover via a mobile phone before he was shot dead in full view of his young children whom he was taking to school. Rumour has it that the hit men were hired by the woman's accountant husband and the gunmen were so sympathetic of the suffering and mental anguish he had gone through—knowing his wife was coming home late from the office almost daily not because of work (at least not what she had been employed to do) but was in fact dishing out favors that are exclusively supposed to be for him and him alone—that they gave him a huge discount for doing "the job."

Another possibility, albeit a very remote one, is that the traffic policeman would have infuriated some matatu tout or driver somewhere to such an extent that they opted to end his life.

Whatever the motive for this strange murder, chances are high that this latest incident will join a very long list of unsolved murders that the Kenya police have in their bulging cold case files section.

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