Police are investigating an incident where a man was robbed of Sh307,000 after leaving a bank in Kitengela, Kajiado County.
The
victim, who is a foreman at a construction site in Kimalati area, Kitengela, was later abandoned off Old Kiambu Road in Muthaiga area, Nairobi, which is about 50
kilometres away from the scene of the attack.
The
victim told police he had, on May 3, gone to a bank in Kitengela and withdrawn the
cash to pay his workers at a construction site.
He
then walked to his car and drove off, headed to the construction site where
workers were waiting to be paid.
While
on his way, he said, two men wearing traffic police uniforms flagged him down, saying
he had committed an offence.
He
said the men said they wanted to accompany him in his car to the local
police station, which he agreed.
One
of the men who was wearing a uniform and a civilian who was standing at the
scene boarded the car.
Another
car that had been parked there trailed them.
The
two then turned to be thugs and took control of the salon car before robbing
him of the cash.
They
drove to Old Kiambu Road, where they abandoned him in the car.
The
suspects escaped with the car key, leaving him stranded.
He
later reported the matter at the Muthaiga police station, where police said they
are liaising with their Kitengela colleagues to solve the matter.
This
is the latest such incident to happen.
A businessman was robbed in April of
Sh900,000 moments after he had withdrawn the same from a bank in Machakos Town.
The businessman said he had been
to a bank in Machakos on April 25, 2025 and withdrew Sh1.5 million for his
business in Kitengela.
He then packed the money in two
separate envelopes with one containing Sh900,000 and the second one Sh600,000.
He told police he drove to a
hotel in Machakos and parked his Pajero car for a meeting.
He, however, did not realise he was
being trailed by men who had information he had made at the bank.
He parked the car and went to the
meeting until late in the evening.
The victim said he left the money
in the car, but when he came back after the meeting, he found the envelope with
the Sh900,000 missing.
He explained he had hidden the
two envelopes separately.
The thieves had broken into the car and picked up the cash.
