A boda-boda operator has sensationally revealed that Kakamega Senator Bonny Khalwale paid him peanuts after saving his life in a daring police rat race.
Musa Zakayo, who operates in Kakamega town, revealed how the outspoken politician approached him seeking an escape from police arrest.
Khalwale had led an illegal demo over nurses’ grievances at the Kakamega Referral Hospital. The police had planned to arrest Khalwale to stop the demo.
According to Zakayo, the Senator picked him randomly at a petrol station where he asked the boda-boda operator, “Uko na mafuta ya kutosha twende? (do you have enough petrol in your motorbike so that we can go?)”
“Before I replied, I noticed a crowd running towards our direction with two police vehicles in a hot chase. The Senator leaped onto the bike then my sixth sense told me to flee,” Zakayo as quoted by Standard digital.
It was then that the Senator informed him that the police were after him.
“The only way to do so was to make our escape through feeder roads and avoiding the major roads in town. I took the Kisumu-Kakamega road and warned the Senator to brace himself as I made a sharp turn towards the Amalemba slums,” said Zakayo.
“My calculation was that the police would not be able to make the turn.”
Zakayo says that the trick worked even though the Senator was panicky at the outset but later relaxed and started joking upon realising they had lost the police.
He said that he eventually took the Khalwale to Illesi where the legislator thanked him with a Sh1,000 note.
“My only worry was that the Sh300 petrol I had put in my bike’s tank could run out before making good the escape. But I am happy to have successfully delivered the senator safely at Illesi where he got into his vehicle and drove off.”
“It was the bravest ride of my life, but the pay was a little bit disturbing given the risk I took,” complained Zakayo.