A middle-aged man is being hunted by police after he allegedly made away with cash believed to be part of the Ksh72 million that was stolen from Standard Chartered Bank ATM in Nairobi West on September 5.
According to a local daily, James Macharia allegedly stole the money, whose amount is yet to be known, from his girlfriend, administration police constable Florence Wanjiru Karuku, at her Thika Town home.
Florence had allegedly been given the money to keep by her sister, Eunice Wangari Karuku, who had earlier received it from their brother, administration police constable Simon Gichuhi Karuku.
Simon and his wife, administration police constable Caroline Karuku, were arrested by the Special Crimes Prevention Unit (SPCU) detectives on Thursday, when they had allegedly gone to a lawyer in Thogoto, Kikuyu Sub-County, to help them apply for an anticipatory bail after learning that police were actively hunting for the Ksh72 million thieves.
Florence, who was the last to get the money in the chain, told police that upon receiving the cash from her sister, Eunice, who is a KDF officer stationed at the Kahawa Military Barracks, she called her boyfriend, James Macharia, who arrived and made away with the money.
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Macharia was last seen driving off from Florence’s house in Thika Town in a motor vehicle of registration plate number KCB 841X.
Police learnt that Simon had “already used part of the stolen money to buy a Toyota Mark X of registration plate number KBX 779R”, and gave it to his sister, Eunice.
The four suspects were taken to Lang’ata Police Station, where they are detained as investigations continue.
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nothing like Justice in Kenya's electoral body.this greediest must vacate the office
Your Comment : I have now believed that we do not have an independent electoral and boundaries commission , instead we have a congregation of greedy individuals out to misuse Kenyans and bring chaos to our country. #Remove them. #clean the top leadership.
Congratulations to Governor Mutua,you really deserve to lead in the best performing governors,,, those ranked last should be dealt with accordingly for misappropriating public funds
Raila was the hunter now the hunted... how do trust a hyena like Uhuru.. You both greedy... you dug your grave lie in it... What handshake.. Crap...
Babu aje zake,handshake is for all Kenyans, and Kibra believe in handshake, there4, Uhuru And Raila should have different candidates and whoever Will go through Will be thé product of handshake
Babu waja ukoloni bwana, there's no direct ticket
Hehehe, supporting somebody was not an agreement in the handshake my friends!! Remember Raila caused many to die during the era of maandamano hence Uhuru devised a method how to tame this power hungry man!! Mariga must win
Your Raila and uhuru come from different political party,. Everyone is free to handle his party issues and i salute the president for supporting mariga being the jubilee candidate. Raila is also supporting the odm candidate and no one is against that. Some people are taking handshake as political party while it's not. Please mr mp style up.
Babu wacha kiherehere or baba will tie u the same tree kidero and obado were rope tied when the latters looked threatening the leadership of baba in nyanza
wacha kiherehere babu