Police in Naivasha have recovered assorted goods worth millions of shillings which had been stolen by suspected highway robbers along the Mai Mahiu-Limuru road.
The recovered goods included sweets, chewing gums, unknown chemicals packed in drums and farm produce believed to have been stolen from a neighbouring country.
A woman found in the newly constructed house in Mai Mahiu was arrested soon after the goods were recovered as police mounted a major manhunt for the suspected highway robbers. In the latest incident, the lorry from Mzuri Sweets Company was ferrying the assorted sweets from Mtwapa to Kisumu when the robbers struck.
According to Naivasha deputy OCPD John Kwasa, the lorry diverted from its route towards Mai Mahiu town where the cargo was offloaded. He said that the owner of the trailer informed police about the lorry and a search ensued with the tracking device leading police to the home.
“We managed to raid the home where we recovered part of the stolen goods worth over Sh4m and in the process found other suspicious goods that we suspect had been stolen too,” he said. Kwasa added that they were holding the wife of the main suspect over the recovered goods adding that the stolen lorry that had been ferrying the cargo had been recovered in Bomet.
“We have been informed that the driver and his conductor have reported to Mai Mahiu Police Station claiming that they were robbed and dumped along the highway and we are keen to interrogate them further,” he said. A manager with the Sweet Company Bernard Mureithi said that the truck left Mombasa on Wednesday morning before its tracking was switched off around 8pm.