Kenya is currently experiencing silly season. This season crops up every five years when elections are upon us. People lose their minds and become bumbling bigots, tribalists and devil spawns overnight.

Emotions are charged and vitriol is spewed at will.

Le Band lead vocalist Fidel Eli Shammah experienced this first hand from cops manning State House gates.

Le Band's lead man narrated the tale in great detail.

"Wagwan fam, So a couple of days ago, I was driving on State House Road with Jeff Kiplagat, Fines Immanuel and other friends then my phone rang. I didn't wanna pick as I don't like picking calls while driving so I saw a bus station just opposite State House with a bus station sign, mind you, and I parked there as I took the call.

As I was speaking on phone, I was approached by a cop who was just outside State House. He came and told me the bus station I had parked at was not for public use and that it was illegal for me to be there.

So he told me there was a sign just before the station stating so and at first I was ignorant and was just gonna accept that I was wrong and ask that he pardoned me as I hadn't seen the sign.

But he them started to say that I had committed an offence and that he wanted to hand me over to other cops if I didn't give him money, so I refused and said if I was in the wrong I didn't mind action being taken against me. He asked for my license and I obliged.

He then read out my name Omusula and said wewe hujui shida uko. He left with my license to the state house gate to talk to fellow police officers. I was calm in the car as in my head i was just like 'ah ni sawa tuu'. These things happen. So he called me and i left the car and went to the state house gate. They called me Omusula and I responded and they said unajua hii jina yako si ya serikali. 'Nyinyi mmepiga serikali vita sasa tunaeza kuekelea makosa na kwa Kenya tunaishi saa hii watu wana hii jina yako tukikuekelea hakuna chenye utafanya sasa utoe kitu ama tukueke makosa juu wewe si Mkenya kulingana na penye umetoka na serikali yetu.' I was shocked! like for real my people. I was super shocked at the utterances from these two cops.

It took me a while to swallow and I responded angrily with, 'Wakubwa sasa niwekeleeni tuu hio makosa ni sawa na mfanye mtakacho fanya.' They got mad but not as mad as I was. They threatened me and I got super ticked off and now began to ask where the sign prohibiting me from being at the bus station was. As it turned out it was all a lie. They kept threatening me but I told them they were not getting even a cent from me.

They asked for my ID but I didn't have it. They then saw my school ID and saw law school and then started to say kumbe unajua haki yako ndio unasumbua sana. Enda lakini ujue hii nchi haina nafasi ya watu wenu. I told them if that is how they did things I feared for Kenya. One told me to leave before he changed his mind so I just left but fam that experience clearly outlined to me where this country is art. We need love, we need a lot of work and we need God."

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