‘I WON’T SHAVE MY DREADLOCKS’ LE BAND’S CAPTAIN CHARISMA TALKS ABOUT HIS ENCOUNTER WITH ROGUE POLICE OFFICERS 

Le Band’s member Captain Charisma, popularly known as Luhya Heat has shared his encounter with rogue police officers amid the rising cases of police brutality and extrajudicial killings in the country. In a social media post, the musician disclosed that he in a road accident a while back when police officers descended on him, harassed him and eventually got him locked up in a police cell. 

Charisma says he was forced to push his broken-down motorcycle to the police station where he was arrested and locked up in a police cell despite being badly injured. “Worst thing is I had an accident some time ago on my bike, like 30 minutes before curfew headed home and I couldn’t ride as I was badly injured. Cops found me at the Nyari Round About and I was like thank God. But they harassed me, made me push a broken down bike to their station while injured and locked me ,in a cell the whole night,” wrote Charisma. 

He noted that he was arrested due to discrimination against people with dreadlocks especially men, “My bro came and had to pay in order to get me help. And why? Because they decided “rasta ni mkora.” Not for a second did they think I probably needed medical care,” he said. 

Charisma, however, maintained that he will not shave his dreadlocks or stop riding despite discrimination of people with dreadlocks by the police and the general public. “I will not change how I look and stop doing what I love because of how it makes you feel. I won’t shave my locks. I won’t stop riding. You will change your perspective. Whether today, tomorrow, in your grave or in the next life. You can keep profiling people with locks. From cops to the common person but we shan’t bend over for you. Harass us, kill us but you will not win,” he wrote.