7 Celebrities That Have Tasted The Wrath Of The Law. You Will Be Stunned To Find Out What Redsan And Sonko Were Once Arrested For

If you haven’t been a guest of the state yet, count yourself lucky and pray hard you don’t spend a night in a cube. Some celebrities knows it too well what it means to be confined in those dirty pits used to restrain those fellows that have been condemn by the law. But most of these news makers have since come out of their ordeal stronger than when they went in. What doesn’t kill you…

Top of the list is Mohamed Swabir aka Redsan. The poor fellow was a victim of law. He was arrested on October last year and the infamous Central Police Station served as his bedroom for a night. Redsan’s offense; mistaken identity. Yes, he was mistaken for a terrorist. He refused to be screened at the Nairobi International Trade Fair grounds opting to leave instead. The police on the other hand had a different idea, they caught up with him along Uhuru highway and took him in for questioning. Lucky he only spent a single night behind bars.

Churchill Show’s comedian, Sleepy David, has also broken the law and ultimately paid for it. His case was rather a funny one just like his humorous jests. The funnyman took his birthday too far and when his landlady couldn’t have it no more, she called the police to intervene. Sleepy was arrested at his Kahawa Wendani residence early last year. He was reportedly bailed out by his friend.

Gospel singer, Ambassada, found himself on the wrong side of the law when he was arrested and charged with possession of stolen property. Police raided a flat in Ongata Rongai where the Ugandan-born singer was and took him in. Ambassada had bought an Apple iPad from a friend. The iPad belonged to popular actor, Freddy Omondi of the Hapa Kule News. He (Freddy) had lost it when he was attacked by gunmen. Ambassada spent a night behind bars before he was taken to Kibera Law Courts to pay for his crime. His predicament happened this year, last month to be precise.

Now this one doesn’t mind being arrested. Rights Activist Boniface Mwangi is not a new face to the police. As a matter of fact, he has been arrested so many times that even the police themselves are tired of handcuffing him. The most popular arrest for Boniface that I remember was way back in 2013 when he was taken in for shouting at Cotu’s motormouth, Mr Francis Atwoli, during Labour Day Celebrations.

Alai, Alai, Alai, the keyboard activist was bold enough to share the President’s contact details on social media and that earned him two nights at a Kiambu police station. One would think he learnt a lesson or two from his arrest but Alai was a guest of the state again only a month later after his initial incarceration. He was put in jail for linking Julie Gichuru’s husband, Tony Gichuru, to land grabbing scandal in Ruai. But Alai was not shaken by any of those arrests, the whistle blower is still undeterred in his quest of naming and shaming any soul that he thinks is engaging in fishy affair that is of public interest.

The one and only Mike Sonko has also stepped on the law’s foot a couple of times. Forget all those incidents that he spat on the constitution while he was a legislator, he was actually arrested and sentence to a jail term while he was still a ‘nobody’. The flamboyant Senator was jailed for two months at the Shimo La Tewa prison in 1998 for absconding a court date over a matter relating to him selling a parcel of land at the Coast. Sonko has seen moved on after serving his time at the dreaded prison. You can see where he is now!

Last but not least is the President’s frontman on digital platform, Dennis Itumbi. The former tech blogger was apprehended by the police back then in 2012 at his rural home. The then government claimed Itumbi and two others were behind an e-mail hacking scam involving witnesses/victims of the 2007/2008 post-election violence. Funny how Itumbi has turned out to be the Director of Digital Communication in the Office of the President. That’s how you get over your mess!