I ALMOST GOT ME BURNED TO ASHES

"Let's us do away with this shenanigans once and for all" Came the chants from a section of boda boda riders of Kitui association in unison. At that point it dawned on me something was a miss and the people in front of me shifted into butchers who were ready to slaughter anything offered to them. Whenever I tried to argue that I was an innocent chap from village who had come to kitui to seek greener pastures, nobody would hear me, instead slaps, kicks and insult rained on me. All that they wanted to hear from me was, who do you work with to steal our bikes? And where do you sell them after. My argument that I wasn't a thief and that i had hired the bike just to kill boredom and familiarize with it since the new job i had landed needed the riding skills landed on deaf ears. Their Chief authoritatively ordered a tyre to be put across my neck and petrol to be bought so that they could do away with me to be an example to many of my behavior and to reduce their nemesis numbers. At that point I asked them to take me to the police and they said in doing so I would buy my way out and come for revenge. And after that persuasive plea went unheard, I turned to my God and said a small prayer" My father in heaven you know am innocent, just save me". True to that word the heavens opened an Angel possessed one of the riders and he said, "guys let's us give him a moment to explain himself. It is at that point I explained to them i had been hired by a microfinance as a recovery officer and the company being famous they called the office and it was confirmed that I wasn't a thief and thus how i escaped death for my careless mistake of hiring a bike in a city where nobody knew me.