Detectives have finally arrested Nairobi’s notorious burglar, who climbs walss like a spiderman.
Mr. Michael Joseph Otieno Odhiambo was arrested at Greenhouse Building.
“The suspect was nabbed with several laptops, Pliers, a Cutter, a Hacksaw and a Ransack bag.” DCI said through a statement.
The man, aptly nicknamed the ‘Spiderman’ because of his skills to scale from one floor to another.
He was captured by CCTV cameras on February 10, 2019 at 12:52a.m jumping over the fence of residential apartments in Kilimani.
In a video, he is seen looking around and – when his view seems clear – he pulls a typical ‘Spiderman’ stunt and climbs through a stair rail to access the first floor.
It is reported that on that fateful day, he made away with an unspecified amount of money said to run into millions from one house whose safe he broke into. The house owner suffered shock and was taken to hospital.
On Valentine’s Day, a foreign citizen’s safe was also broken into and his gun stolen.
One of the victims of the thug’s exploits said she woke up one morning and her lock was broken and her door opened.
“I live on the second floor, and one morning I woke up and my jewelry and my laptop were missing, my house had been broken into,” she narrated.
“I got hurt… because anything can happen, material things can be recovered, but it really scares me that someone was in my house and I’m all alone.”
In one residential area, according to sources, the burglar climbed a tree at 8p.m and stayed up until 1a.m before coming down and making his way into an apartment block.