Governor Obado Offers Sonko Golden Tips On Surviving Industrial Area Remand

Migori county governor, H.E Zachary Okoth Obado, has sent valuable pieces of advice to his Nairobi comrade Mike Sonko, on what to do to cope with the hostilities in the Industrial Area remand prison.

On Monday, the Milimani court confined Governor Sonko to Industrial Area remand facility awaiting his bail ruling on Wednesday morning.

Governor Obado stated that having been in a similar situation before, with a relatively high profile murder case, he knows exactly what to be done for one to make it out in one piece. Late 2018, the Governor was held in Industrial Area for a month before being released on bail.

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‘Be Generous With Protection Fees’

On life at the remand facility, he advised Sonko to pay ‘protection fees’ at intervals of every six hours, to enable the officers to accord him special attention, as well as the goons in remand.

“You cannot survive at Industrial Area without special protection from both the prisoners and the wardens. I advise my brother to have cash be delivered to him periodically to maintain this,” he offered.

He advised that Sonko should ensure that he established rapport with the officers through tipping them handsomely for protection, adding that the role of the protection can never be underestimated in a remand like Industrial Area.

‘Devolve Philanthropy In The Prison Blocks’

Obado further advised that Sonko should avail snacks and other basic utilities to the inmates, saying it goes a long way into ensuring that the prisoners respected you and treated you with the decorum required. Obado insisted that if Sonko wanted a humane treatment from the animal-like prisoners, he’d better availed for them the utilities in large quantities.

“My brother Sonko is known to be a philanthropist and those in remand would want to experience his philanthropy. It is very safe to offer and buy his block and even the other blocks snacks every morning,” Obado noted.

Doing so, he says, will have the prisoners view him as their saviour and every one of them will be falling over themselves trying to please him.

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‘Embrace Humility In Totality’

The Migori county governor confessed that times without numbers, he would clean and brush to shine, the prisoners’ shoes, symbolic of being a good servant of the people.

Governor Obado also called on Sonko to consider volunteering to take up manual work allocated to other prisoners noting that such an action would create a strong bond of respect as a leader who leads from the front.

He advised Sonko to make a point of cleaning the shoes and brushing them, to enable him to create an interpersonal relationship with the other persons held in the Industrial Area remand facility, urging that he would not know how long he’d have to be retained there.

“Promise Them Heaven Once You Are Out’

Borrowing a leaf from the advantage taken by preachers and politicians when campaigning, Governor Obado further advised Sonko to promise the prisoners employment to their relatives once he got out, adding that this would cement the loyalty and support from them.

He also urged his colleague to make a promise to those held in Industrial Area that he would petition the government to improve their welfare and push for the transfer of unfriendly warders and officers once he is released.

“When they realize that when you are set free, you will be of more use to them than when you are in remand, they will pray six times every day so that you are released. I believe prayers work,” the Migori county boss stated.

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Obado made it clear that he was in solidarity with Sonko, stating that everyone should know that once in a while one would get themselves behind the bars.

He advised that the judiciary should remain impartial in their judgments, saying that the Kenyan courts’ impartiality cannot be trusted.

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