Two Wells Fargo employees on Monday morning disappeared with Ksh94.9 million they were to deliver to a bank in Nairobi.
The money was from the security firm’s vault in Industrial Area and was to be delivered to Family Bank in the Central Business District.
Nairobi police commander said the stolen cash belonged to Quickmart Supermarkets and was for the weekend sales.
The police commander added the two missing guards had been identified as Daniel Mungai, the crew commander and Antjony Nduiki who was the driver.
The two, who were on board the company’s vehicle, an Izuzu truck registration number KBA 517T, had arrived at the vault as scheduled but left without the Administration Police (AP) officers who were supposed to escort them.
The officers, after waiting beyond the expected time, decided to check on them only to realise the two guards had left the premises.
The said motor vehicle was found dumped at Dafam area South C, next to the Southern bypass, without the suspects and the money missing.
“The above suspects are said to have collected the money as usual but sneaked out without police escort. Later the AP officers waited but didn’t see them, it was then that they raised the alarm. The vehicle without money was dumped at Dafarm in South C in the Langata sub-county,” police said in a report.
Senior police officers visited the scene and established the two escaped aboard a waiting car.
Detectives have launched investigations into the matter as the manhunt for the two is underway.
Preliminary investigations reveal that it could be an inside job.
The officers who were to escort the truck involved in the heist were questioned as part of the probe into the incident.
In 2019, men posing as police officers stole 13 bags of money worth Ksh72 million, from the Standard Chartered Bank and G4S in Nairobi.
The impostors stole the cash in transit from the G4S headquarters along Witu Road and an ATM in Nairobi West belonging to Standard Chartered Bank.
“On arrival, they (thugs) requested the password from headquarters then opened the ATM machine,” the police OB2/5/919 in Langata division police station stated.
G4S head of escort Wilfred Nyambane reported that the G4S employees had left the headquarters in two vehicles with three men they thought to be cash-in-transit officers escorting them.
“The officers who were escorting the cash turned out to be robbers and demanded all their phones and offloaded the cash to another car make Toyota Noah that emerged and they made away with 13 bags of cash with roughly Ksh72 million,” police said.
