Yesterday On… Inspekta Mwala
This is a new segment we’ll be doing here on Ghafla! After our coverage of this year’s Big Brother Africa, we discovered that for various reasons there was a huge number of people who used ghafla.co.ke to follow the series. So we’ve decided to cover ALL the major series in Kenya, for those of you who can’t watch for one reason or another. First up is a review of Inspekta Mwala, one of the top rated shows in Kenya:
So yesterday’s show started with two street urchins(aka chokoras) hiding in the back of an orange Subaru and tell the driver to take them to their destination.
The scene changes to two cops at the station, Abdi and Madam Dorothy, who are talking idly about their children’s school issues. Shortly, they get a man who wants to report a stolen phone. He claims that he gave a man his phone in order to borrow some quick cash, but when he asked for the phone back, the shylock refused.
The cops actually told him that maybe the man with the phone had his own financial issues which he wanted to solve, after which he would return the phone. The cops inform the man reporting the crime that shylocking is in fact illegal and ask him why he has a need for fast money. The reporting man gets enraged and says that what he is going to do is bring the shylock’s head to the station.
Scene goes to an oppulent mansion belonging to a man aptly named ‘Budda’ where they seemed to be planning a sinister plot. There is an exchange of a lot of money over the phone in question. The men at the mansion celebrate that they have covered a large bill using the money from the stolen phone.
Back to the Subaru next. The Subaru pulls up to a hardware shop. Mwala comes up to the car, telling some of his “mboys” to man the car, while he goes to arrest the Soob driver. Mwala reveals that they have been operating a racket involving the driver, the hardware shop and some fake chokoras. Mwala sits them all down and cuffs them. He demands to be led to the chokoras and that they leave the business. The program abruptly ends here.
All in all, I was left very confused by this episode of Inspekta Mwala. The two plots involving the Subaru and the stolen phone did not connect at any point. The programme also ended very abruptly, and there was only one scene with jokes, making it seem like a hastily cobbled collage of video shots. Honestly though, I don’t think l’ll ever get this show, as I’m not in the target demographic(mashinani folks). HOWEVER, I find it offensive that the executives at Citizen see this sort of incomplete and haphazard programming to be the only thing fit for consumption by guys upcountry. No matter where you are from, you deserve a wholesome, well thought-out TV diet.
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