Thieves steal Sh200,000 from petrol station
What you need to know:
- The thieves are said to have used a crowbar to force their way into the manager’s office where they broke a safe that contained the money.
- According to police, the three staff members who were on duty said that the robbers were not armed except with the crowbar which they used to break into the office.
- The three workers were taken away by officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations for further questioning.
More than Sh200,000 was stolen from a petrol station, barely three days after it was opened.
The station, which is run by the National Oil Corporation and located just outside Nyeri Town, was broken into at around 4am on Tuesday by three unknown men who made away with the loot in what police said was most likely an inside job.
“From the information we have gathered we highly suspect there was collusion,” said Ms Eunice Kihiko, the Nyeri County police commander who visited the scene.
The three men are reported to have driven into the petrol station in a saloon car and tied up a guard and two other staff members who were manning it.
The registration number of the car is yet to be known.
The thieves are said to have used a crowbar to force their way into the manager’s office where they broke a safe that contained the money.
The safe was built into the office’s concrete floor and only a few people know its exact location.
According to police, the three staff members who were on duty said that the robbers were not armed except with the crowbar which they used to break into the office.
The three workers were taken away by officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations for further questioning.
