"Following the brutal killing of Kabete MP and veteran trade unionist Hon George Muchai together with his two armed police officer and a driver, many Kenyans have wondered how a lone shooter could have killed the four including two well trained and armed police officers.Well, it now emerges that some police officer
attached to Members of Parliament and most VIPs
are often forced to do other odd jobs that in the end do not add value to their core duties. Here is how one Intelligence Analyst Collins AJ captured it on a Facebook post .
”VIP protection is simply the most thankless job in
this country. Basically, your job is to detect and
deter threats to your boss. But as soon as you
report to work, you become everything. You are sent shopping, you drop kids to school, collect debt for boss and wife, you are the errand man to the pharmacy to buy viagra, condoms and P2. You deliver messages and threats to the large harem the boss has, you sometimes intervene in fights between the boss and his women. You report to work at 4am and follow the boss to weddings, toilets, hotels, funerals, rallies,witchdoctors’ houses, several mistresses,
hospitals and godforsaken villages.And when you happen to witness any of his illegal
activities from drugs to child trafficking, your own
life is in danger. His family and friends treat you
like a slave.
When he goes into private meetings chewing
succulent goat thighs, you sit yawning in the car
in blistering afternoon heat. For hours. You
reported to work at 4am but you haven’t taken a
break by the next 4am. Yet everyone expects you
to be alert because your training requires that you
be!
Then when the enemies of the boss come for him,
they take your life too. But everyone mourns the
boss, as you remain just a footnote!”

While the nation mourns the death of yet another legislature felled by a gun man's bullets, hard questions must be asked about circumstances

Several months ago, an AP bodyguard attached to Kajiado MP Ole Sakuda was shot an killed in cold blood in Kinoo area. He was my friend

Several months ago, an AP bodyguard attached to Kajiado MP Ole Sakuda was shot an killed in cold blood in Kinoo area. He was my friend

While the nation mourns the death of yet another legislature felled by a gun man's bullets, hard questions must be asked about circumstances

Many of his APs colleagues guarding MPs, Parastatal chiefs and Constitutional Office holders are overtly overworked into "official slavery".

Often, Shani, my departed friend, would come home well past One o'clock - and had only two hours of sleep before heading to back to job.

Like many APs attached to MPs, he had complained severally- and I know this first hand- of long, irregular working hours guarding the MP.

Some MPs /Constitutional office holders are amorous. Party animals. Happy Go types. The APs are forced to protect them while they are at it.

For some APs, dropping the boss home after unofficial errands means having less than three hours of sleep a day. Some work without off days.

I know many APs who are dropped home at two/three in the morning. Unlucky ones are made to take a matatu home at that hour while MP is home •

Shani was gunned down as he was going to look for food within the Kinoo shelters. Gunman took his gun. His boss lived in Mountain View Est.

I was shocked at the 'Dropping the driver at Kencom to pick a matatu home' part. At 2.30am??? Seriously???

Live in Kamulu, along Kangundo Road. I was equally shocked to learn that.

Depends on who you ask! for some Kenyans the probox looks like a miniature Range rover!!