It now emerges that the man filmed being bundled into a personal vehicle in Ongata Rongai was being arrested in connection with fraud.
The clip was overly shared online, sparking anger from social media users who concluded the incident was another episode of abduction.
In the video, the man is seen unsuccessfully objecting to his handlers, who strived and succeeded in pushing him into the vehicle.
Onlookers were heard accusing the occupants of the car, with some regarding them as abductors.
However, it has now been established that the man in question was being arrested after being reported for attempting to defraud an M-Pesa outlet.
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CCTV footage from the shop situated at the heart of Ongata Rongai town showed the man, now identified as Duke Mainge, entering the mobile money shop disguised as a customer.
After engaging the attendant therein, he linked him with people he claimed were Safaricom agents.
The attendant developed suspicion and notified members of the public, who showed up and cornered Duke, as they contacted the police, who came to the scene in plain clothes.
"He came in and asked me to speak to a Safaricom care agent. I picked up his phone, and on the other end of the call was a random Safaricom number, then a number from Airtel kept calling him," the M-Pesa operator recounted.
Despite the reactions from the onlookers, the police left with the suspect, who they detained at the Ongata Rongai Police Station, as investigations into his conduct kicked off.
A preliminary police probe established that Duke was part of a syndicate defrauding M-Pesa agents across the country.
The suspect, however, denied the allegations levelled at his name.
He said he was arrested and assaulted by the police for no reason.
"Someone sent me to any M-Pesa shop to connect him with an agent. I was then bundled into a car; I wondered what was happening. They handcuffed me, yet I had not committed any offence," the detained man said.
