When I met him at Landless Estate in Thika, he was at pains to explain how in a spurn of six months he has lost two motorbikes to riders whom he had employed to do bodaboda business with.
Patrick Maina who is in his early 50s, says that he lost the first motorbike towards the end of January 2018 to a rider who hails from Kitui and whom he had interacted with for a long time before.
"The rider was a good friend of mine and I trusted him a lot. Before he stole the motorbike, he had worked with it for close to two months and his work was good. On the fateful day, he came for the motorbike in the morning as usual and left for work. That is the last time I heard or saw him," Maina said on Tuesday.
He says that after two days, he decided to report the matter to the police after he became suspicious that he could have lost his motorbike to his close friend.
However, he says that the police haven't helped him as they keep on telling him to be patient because 'unearthing motorbike theft nowadays is tricky'.
Maina says that after he lost hope of ever recovering his motorbike, he decided to buy another one in June but it didn't even last a month.
"I bought it and gave it to a neighbour's son whom I could easily trace in case of anything, but early this month he came home one evening just to tell me that he lost the motorbike," he recounts.
He says that the rider told him that he had stopped near Makongeni Post Office to look for change only to find the motorbike and the client missing on return.
"I did not buy into this story because as many bikes have been lost this way around Thika and on many occasions, the riders are found to have conspired with the thieves," he said.
Maina who has now vowed never to venture into the bodaboda business again, said he is contemplating seeking the assistance of a witchdoctor to unearth the thieves of the two motorbikes as the police were doing little to help him.
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