‘Alcoblow Watch’ Facebook & Twitter Pages Being Monitored by Police

Trust Kenyans to always come up with ways of outwitting the Government’s decree. Shortly after the re-introduction of alcoblow gadgets on Nairobi roads, Nairobians took to social media (their citadel) and set up pages with one aim; “Assist evade alcoblow”.

In fact one of the pages descriptions reads, “Yenyewe 500K fine is a lot of cash, lets help each other avoid the alcoblow by posting on this page where the alcoblow checks are. Then we can avoid using those roads”, and just like that the page started operations.

However, it would be long before the page comes under the Police radar.

Earlier this week, Traffic Commandant, Samuel Kimaru, read the riot act warning the admins of the pages declaring, “We are monitoring the pages. We are also redeploying the police to different locations after a few minutes to avoid this,” reports Nairobi News.

He went ahead to identify the targeted Facebook pages as ‘Alcoblow Watch’ and ‘Alcoblow updates’ and added that the perpetrators are helping drunk motorists circumvent the law.

However, the directive seemed not to perturb the pages’ fans as one said, “Its perfectly legal to post your observations on social media or on any other forum this is not a police state as much as the police would like it to be one.” Another adding, “how illegal is it to caution law abiding citizen of where they can be safe. i believe its in order to tell the public where our boys are situated so that they can get help asap. i guess now they’ll be coming to houses where cars are packed and demand we blow the gadgets.”

Another one urged the admin on;

“Admin, kaa ngumu, there is nothing the buggers aka police can do becoz FB CANNOTAND I REPEAT CANNOT SHARE user info. They are just making noise, kibunja tried it and he hit a brickwall once he realized that FB will not help him by revealing user info. There is NOTHING police can do. NOTHING. Keep the page up and lets recruit 20,000 other kenyans till these silly police arrest the real thugs roaming our estates and leave innocent kenyans who want to enjoy their hard earned money.”