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Drama as man wards off armed robbers by declaring he is from Dandora

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Dandora Man

Armed gangsters tried to rob the ‘wrong man’ in downtown Nairobi, and it didn’t end well. Unlike the average Kenyan who raises the alarm or wets their pants and resigns to fate when armed robbers strike, Francis Amunga only used Dandora estate’s reputation as one of the most dangerous places, to fend off two gangsters who were armed with knives. Would you believe that?

Ordinarily, when crooks — ruthless as they come — encounter an unco-operative or hostile victim-to-be, raw rage always boils over with the latter getting seriously injured or even killed.

Interestingly, such was not the case with brave Amunga. All he had to do was sternly warn and threaten that he was from the alleged home of hardcore gangsters — Dandora, and loudly vow, “I’m not going to be robbed”.

Despite threats that they were going to dispatch him to his Maker, Amunga stuck to his guns, and kept side-stepping as they tried to pounce on him in attempts to put him in a choke-hold. “Walijaribu kunipiga ngeta na kunisweep waniweke chini lakini wapi (During the standoff, they tried to trip and pin me down me by sweeping and entangling my feet in vain)!” he said.

Amunga told this writer that while walking to a bus terminus on his way home after a night out with friends, he noticed suspicious characters trailing him. That he was treading on dangerous grounds by going to pick a matatu in a seedy side of the city, in the dead of night, did not worry him.

He boasts to this writer that he had encountered dangerous robbers in his neigbourhood enough times. “Most of the robbers in this town are amateurs. When they’re not armed with toy guns, they are clumsy at head-to-head combat. They are only successful because Nairobians are cowards. I have tackled seasoned robbers in Dandora enough times, and they have never killed me,” Amunga bragged.

Lethal weapon

Just when he got into a dark alley, they closed in on him and drew knives, with one roaring menacingly, “Kuja hapa kijana. Tuachie kile unatuachia ama tukumalize (Come here, young man. Give us money or we ‘waste’ you). “Wacheni ufala. Mimi ni msee wa D. Haki ya nani hamutanipiga ngeta (Stop that nonsense. I’m from Dandora and I swear I’m not going to be put in choke-hold and robbed),” scoffed a furious Amunga.

“What will you do with those knives? Kama ni pesa munataka sina (I have no money on me). Kwani iko nini bwana! Hata mini niko kazi (What the hell! I am also at work [insinuating he was also a gangster]),” he further mocked them, before running his hand in the front side of his underwear like one reaching for a lethal weapon.

He unleashed nothing but a cocked fist, which he dangerously swung in the air, sending the miscreants scampering as they taunted him, “Kwenda uko (Go to hell)!” before scrambling away dejected.

Amunga said he saw no need to report the incident to police because it would have been too petty of him. Talk of gangsters having a bad day at the ‘office’.

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