- In an interview with NTV on Thursday, Gloria Ntazola said it all started at the Jevanjee Gardens just as she was trying to park her car at around 3 pm Wednesday.
- "I locked him inside my car and told him I have a lot of time we can take rides with you because you wanted to waste time."
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A Nairobi businesswoman who filmed herself taking a city askari on a road trip after he got into her car allegedly to extort her has given a blow-by-blow account of how the drama unfolded.
In an interview with NTV on Thursday, Gloria Ntazola said it all started at the Jevanjee Gardens just as she was trying to park her car at around 3pm Wednesday.
"When I was trying to park my car, these four guys came towards my car, two managed to enter inside and then they were trying to like force me saying I was on the wrong."
Ntazola said she wondered what crime she had committed considering she had paid for the parking but one particular askari insisted she was at fault.
Aware that she had not done anything wrong, she decided to escalate the situation in the full knowledge that police or any enforcement officer is not allowed to enter a motorist's car without their consent.
"It's against the law and they know it but normally in Kenya they can just bully you thinking that people don't know their rights so I couldn't allow him to bully me," she said.
"I locked him inside my car and told him I have a lot of time we can take rides with you because you wanted to waste time."
Ntazola said she drove to Kilimani where she stays and showed the officer her residence somewhere along State House Road then drove back to Museum Hill.
She then took the Nairobi Expressway to Kitengela.
"I knew if we used the normal road, we would encounter a lot of traffic so I was like you know what, I can just spend on this guy, I want to teach him a lesson.
"I was willing to go on a long trip with him, it's just that it was very late. If it was early during the day, I would have taken him so far because they have made it a habit."
Ntazola said at some point she got suspicious that the inspectorate officer was likely an imposter because all the while, he appeared to be making calls to call for backup but wasn't calling anyone.
She said she expected him to signal traffic police officers to come to his rescue but none of that happened either.
"I took him to Kitengela and left him at a place that would be hard for him to get a matatu and left him somewhere there. I told him now you have to spend your money back to town and learn courtesy," she said.
The lady posted the video of the entire drama on her TikTok handle which in turn widely shared on multiple social media accounts including X, formerly Twitter.
The video elicited massive reactions from Kenyans with the lady acknowledging that an estimated 99 per cent of those who reached out to her said she did the right thing.