DCI Causes Excitement After Using Popular Sheng Word

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A 2018 image of Kenyan youth perusing a phone.
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The Directorate of Criminal Investigations has caused excitement online by using sheng in a response to a Twitter user. 

The directorate on Saturday morning, December 26 had announced the successful rescue of a man abducted by a gang in Mombasa. 

A Twitter user by the moniker Jay Muchiri then described the DCI’s tweet as a showcase of the department’s creative writing skills.

“Bro this sounds like a well-composed composition,” he commented, prompting a sheng response from the DCI saying, “Tena nimekuwa bro? Mimi ni Yeng.”

Comical responses from Kenyans reacting to the DCI's use of sheng word 'Yeng'
Comical responses from Kenyans reacting to the DCI's use of sheng word 'Yeng'
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The response suggested that the person behind the DCI account was a female officer. 

In the victorious tweet, the directorate had announced that;

In the wee hours of today morning, detectives rescued one man who had been abducted in Changamwe, Mombasa. 

The 26-year-old Wambua Mutuku is lucky to be celebrating Boxing Day with his family after our hawk-eyed boys rescued him to freedom from the jaws of a machete-wielding gang.

One of the gang members was shot dead while his accomplices fled the scene terrified, leaving behind over five machetes and other crude weapons.

Mutuku had been taken hostage and taken to Lilongwe area in Mombasa, where detectives and our police counterparts rescued him to freedom.

In the past, the DCI has showcased creative writing skills while reporting, one of the most memorable being the use of the phrase “Put to sleep” which means to kill, especially as a form of kindness as is done to animals that have little chance of recovering from a disease of injury.

The clever use of the phrase “put to sleep” to mean that the officers killed him, invited Kenyans to marvel at the language used.

“He (the suspect) was put to sleep at his hideout in Githurai Kimbo when he defied the order to surrender,” read part of the tweet which was ironic because of the shoot out which had occurred. 

DCI’s ERT Squad on a drill during training on June 4, 2020.
DCI’s ERT Squad on a drill during training on June 4, 2020.
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