Police are in the trail of a gang led by a woman in her eighties that has been robbing people in Nairobi for the last three years. Police say the gang of two men and three women, all of Asian origin, mainly target electronic goods and M-Pesa shops in Nairobi and neighbouring towns.
In all the cases reported to the police, the gang has not been reported to use firearms. One of the gangsters is a well-known suspect who was brought up and lived in South C before he moved away two years ago. The elderly gang leader accompanies her youthful accomplices to targeted outlets posing as a first time visitor to Kenya and in desperate need to change foreign currency into local money.
The gang has been captured on several CCTV cameras but very little is known regarding their personal details and residence. Lang’ata OCPD Elijah Maina on Wednesday said they were investigating a case where the gang stole money from an M-Pesa shop in Dam 2 estate in Lang’ata on Saturday.
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The octogenarian and another young woman went to the M-Pesa shop and pretended they wanted to withdraw Ksh70,000. The young woman told the shop owner that the elderly woman had arrived in Kenya the previous day and wanted various denominations of Kenyan currency.
The shop owner realised that they were taking too long and became impatient. She told them that she wanted to attend to another customer who wanted to buy milk from the next counter but the younger woman pleaded with her to be patient.
She left to serve the other customer but when she came back to the M-Pesa counter, the two left hurriedly and drove off in a car parked outside. The shop owner later realised that they had stolen all the money, but unfortunately did not get the details of the car.
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