Top Kenyan Comedian Eric Omondi was arrested on Monday for overlapping by a traffic police officer along the busy Mombasa Road.
Mr Omondi was heading to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport to catch his flight to New York, when he got himself on the wrong side of the law.
According to a video shared on his Instagram account, the Comedian is seen pleading with the police officer to forgive him and allow him to catch his flight as he was running late.
“Haki huyu polisi ananishika ati overlapping na nimechelewa Airport” captioned Eric Omondi
The comedian was flagged down by a traffic officer on a motorbike who explained what he had done, jokingly he drove away in handcuffs.
After pleading with the officer for a few minutes, Omondi was let free and he managed to make it to his flight.
The comedian is set for New York and in the meantime, you can catch up with him on CNN after he was featured in ‘African Voices.’
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