Would you steal from the company you are working in? Well some bold young men sniffed dollars and there minds went crazy leading them to act on their dark desires that is now hunting them.
Two trolley pushers were arrested at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on Friday after stealing thousands of dollars from a customer.
According to the DCI, Kennedy Ochieng (22) and Kevin Ogega (25) are both employees of Tropical Promoters – a company that offers trolley services at JKIA.
The DCI did not disclose how much the two stole, but said the amount was recovered.
“Today we arrested Kennedy Ochieng, 22yrs, and Kevin Ogega, 25yrs, for stealing thousands of Dollars belonging to a passenger. All the cash recovered after a search,” reads the tweet.
On January 5, 1997, a man strolled into the offices of high-security Kenya Airfreight Handling Limited at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) and duped guards on duty Sh54 Million.
The story is told of one Charles Omondi Odhiambo who walked into the Airfreight handling limited and picked up the Sh54 Million which was in crisp dollars.
This remains one of the most perplexing robbery stories the country ever witnessed since the suspect, Mr Omondi, disappeared into thin air after he took the money .
He exited the state and left baffled investigators as police and the Central Bank of Kenya scrambled to investigate offering a reward of Sh250,000 which was later increased to Sh1 Million.
The money, which is an equivalent of Sh85 Million today, was ferried in an 11-kilogram bag and led investigators to question why the bank did not use modern methods of transferring huge sums of money.
The money was normally collected from the airport, where it was stored in a strong room, on Mondays and a city security firm was in charge of this task.
However, that was not the norm when the city security firm’s personnel went to collect the money only to find it missing.
On January 10, the plot thickened when police confirmed to local dailies that indeed the money had been stolen and the suspect had fled the country.
A year later, police responded to a domestic violence call only to find that the man in question was the suspect, who had a disagreement with his wife after she moved from Umoja estate to BuruBuru.
After a lengthy trial, he was jailed for three years and later released from jail following a presidential pardon in 2002.