How to deal with carjackers, the Luo and Kikuyu way

Carjacking in Kenya has become too frequent in recent times fueled by a hopeless economic situation countrywide.

Drivers, car dealers and owners are now getting creative to curb the rising menace and prevent or at least be able to recover their stolen vehicles.

So, here is why my friend Onyango, a successful businessman from the lakeside, is never afraid to lose his expensive Range Rover Sport or Hummer to carjackers.

At one time he was confronted by armed carjackers at the globe cinema roundabout while going to his mansion in the leafy suburbs of Nairobi, Karen.

The carjackers ordered him at gunpoint  to leave the car. They then sped off with his Range Rover.

“Omera, you think these fools will go far?” he was heard telling the little crowd watching the spectacle.

“I have a remote tracker on my Iphone 6 and at the touch of a button that car will stall and not move an inch unless I say so.”

But it is not just people from the lake side that can pull the anti-carjacking stunts.

Hata mundu wa Nyuba are not worried about carjackers. Highway robbers targeting their Toyota Proboxes don't even bother to wield guns and other deadly weapons.

Another friend of mine, Njeru was also confronted at Nyamakima by thugs.

Armed with just a nyaunyo, the thugs lashed him on the back and ordered him out of his probox.

Njeru was however very calm. Then he said rather as a matter of fact, "You think they are going far? Unajua haka ka gari kana fuel ya Sh. 100 pekee, they will not go beyond Kariokor."