Piece by: CYRUS OMBATI

19 October 2023

• The victim told police he had gone to a local bank and withdrew the money on October 17 at about 2 pm and stashed the same in a bag.

• He then walked to his car and drove outside Kenya Industrial Estate where he stopped to make a call.

Police are investigating claims by a man that he was robbed of Sh1.5 million moments after he had withdrawn the cash from a bank in Narok.

The victim told police he had gone to a local bank and withdrew the money on October 17 at about 2 pm and stashed the same in a bag.

He then walked to his car and drove outside Kenya Industrial Estate where he stopped to make a call.

He said he stepped out of the car.

According to the victim, a car that had been trailing him stopped there and two men jumped out, walked to his car and grabbed the bag containing the cash.

The two dashed back to their car and drove off as the victim watched without any resistance.

The man rushed to the local police station and made a report of the robbery.

Police visited the scene as part of the probe. Another team visited the bank where he said he withdrew the cash as part of the investigations.

No arrest or recovery has been made so far and police say this is the latest such incident to be reported in the area.

Police are investigating the latest incidents, with preliminary investigations revealing that it could have been an inside job.

Police have warned the public against carrying large sums of money.

The victims are trailed from the bank after withdrawals to their residences or places of work where they can be easily robbed or wounded in the process.

Officials say not all customers and bank staff are genuine.

Some of the thieves behind the trend pose as customers to identify customers making huge withdrawals before they alert their accomplices outside the bank.

Police say the racket involves bank staff, police and other robbers.

Some of these robbers not only have guns but also handcuffs.

They are also suspected of having police radios and using different vehicles.

Meanwhile, in Nairobi’s Langata area, police are investigating a case of stealing from a locked motor vehicle where a member of the public lost cash and valuables worth hundreds of thousands to car breakers in Nairobi West.

The victim fell into the hands of the notorious gang that has been terrorizing Nairobi residents after he left the cash that he had withdrawn from the bank, a school bag, a laptop and his mobile phone inside his motor vehicle and went to a supermarket only to return and find all of them missing.

Preliminary investigations have revealed that the thugs are operating in a motor vehicle that has fake number plates to hide their tracks but detectives are burning midnight oil to bring them to book.