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Beware: The City Council Of Nairobi Will arrest you for the following sins

1. Buying from hawkers
2. Sitting on a flower pot in the CBD
3. Spitting on any footpath or blowing the nose aimlessly other than into a suitable cloth or tissue
4. Taking or alighting from a matatu from a non-designated area

5. Crossing the road while you are on the phone
6. Making any kind of noise on the streets
7. Playing any game, riding or driving or propelling on a foot path
8. Graffiti
9. Owner of a burning building should pay for fire fighting services whether the owner requested for attendance or not.
10. Loitering, importuning or attempting to procure a female/male for prostitution purposes.
11. Having you car with a ‘FOR SALE’ sign and haven’t paid the council is also punishable.

The City’s survival tips

1.       The moment you get into the council courts and charged, please plead guilty because only then, will you be allowed to pay a fine of a maximum of Sh2000. If you deny the charges you may be arrested for two days with no fine.
2.       Do not argue with the council askaris if you know that you are guilty as charged.  You might just double your fine.
3.       If you are one who toa’s “kitu kidogo”, Bribes are unacceptable after/immediately the lorry has entered the city council’s compound.
4.       M-PESA is not allowed to pay for a crime.
5.       Someone else MUST pay your fine. You cannot pay the fine yourself after you have been charged.

Ø The other day I saw a man was arrested by kanjo  for pulling his suit case on its wheels, they want you to carry it n not pull it – yet to find out the fine.