Police in Bamburi, Mombasa, have launched a manhunt for 2 armed thugs captured on surveillance cameras robbing an M-Pesa store on Sunday, February 26, 2023.
A CCTV footage shared on social media on Monday confirmed the robbers carrying caps and face masks making their strategy to the store at 2:07 pm posing as prospects.
One of many thugs pretends to be withdrawing some cash and is heard confirming the agent quantity to make use of with a feminine attendant who sat patiently ready to serve him.
In the meantime, the second robber is seen checking one thing in his backpack earlier than he pulls out and brandishes an AK-47 rifle, a lot to the shock of the attendant.
The opposite thug opens the door resulting in the counter and orders the now shaken agent to give up all the cash within the store as his confederate threatens to shoot the girl if she doesn’t cooperate.
“We do not need an issue with you should you cooperate,” one of many thugs shouts on the attendant.
One of many thugs is heard asking for more cash as he ransacks the store that additionally sells cell phone equipment.
“The place is the remainder of the cash?” one of many robbers is heard asking even because the attendant maintains that she had given each penny she had.
The robbers power the girl to lie down as they flee the scene.
“We’ll depart you right here with Kamau to maintain watch as we rob the subsequent store,” they’re heard tricking the attendant earlier than making their method out with the cash and different objects.
Gun-point theft at Bamburi, Mombasa, Sunday pic.twitter.com/u4gL0L3CHt
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Circumstances of robbers focusing on M-Pesa brokers have been on the rise lately.
In October final yr, a three-man gang riding on a motorbike robbed an M-Pesa agent of Ksh24,000 and three cell phones in Kabete.
The sufferer recognized as Zipporah Wanjiku was accosted by the three who have been armed with a pistol at Kabete Market whereas heading to her administrative center.
She was then ordered to give up the bag which she had and she or he aptly complied.
The bag contained three cell phones used for M-Pesa, Fairness, and Airtel Businesses, two factors of sale machines for Fairness and Co-operative banks and their playing cards, and Ksh24000 in money.
“Wanjiku was accosted by three males on a bike whereas armed with a pistol and ordered her to give up her bag which she obliged. The bag had three cell phones for M-Pesa and Fairness and Airtel Businesses, two sale level machines for Fairness and Co-operative Banks with their playing cards and Ksh24,000,” a police report seen by K24 Digital learn partly.
Law enforcement officials who have been on patrol observed the commotion and rushed to the scene. The gang, nonetheless, managed to get away and escaped towards Naivasha highway whereas using on a bike whose quantity plate had been hid.
