On Friday, April 22, my friend called me at around 7pm that she was at Athi River police station to solve a certain case.
I rushed there and as we were still waiting for the police officer who was handling her case, we met a certain man who narrated a funny case.
He is a supervisor at one of the Standard Gauge Railway, SGR construction sites in Athi River, Machakos county.
Earlier that day, he had pressed charges on a Chinese man who, after getting into a disagreement, hit him with a helmet.
He told us that the Chinese man is fond of beating his workers who are locals. As we were talking, the Chinese man was being held at the station.
He also told us of a case where the same Chinese man had beaten another worker called Waweru, who sued him and was later paid Sh300,000 for damages.
Is this a case of foreigners behaving badly? The times of slavery are long gone and it is ridiculous that in this time and age a light skin can still view a black skin as inferior with little education.