CCTV Exposes Vehicle Involved in Recent Robberies on Thika Road

CCTV footage has exposed a vehicle involved in recent robberies in the Ruiru area in Kiambu county, placing the perpetrators at the centre of four recent incidents along Thika Road. 

The vehicle’s occupants were further accused of harrasing revellers in entertainment joints along Muguthe Road in Ruiru for the past three months, conducting robberies at the wee hours of the night. 

A group of more men, operating with a Toyota Voxy vehicle mode number plate KDK **8K, was captured breaking into several joints in the area, making away with possessions amounting to millions of shillings. 

In the first CCTV footage, the robbers broke into a bar and restaurant, making away with liquor worth Ksh1.2 million days after the owner launched the joint. 

A photo of vehicles plying the Thika Super Highway in Nairobi County on March 6, 2020.

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“We are living in fear that we might be a target group, and the robbers are using that fear to work against us,” the business owner stated but did not divulge whether the gang was armed. 

Footage from three more joints placed the same vehicle in robberies reported along Mugethe Road, but with different number plates. 

In the footage dated November 3, 2023, the vehicle was placed outside a restaurant, bearing the number plate KCX ***G, and upon conducting an NTSA search, the plate was registered to a business in Nairobi. 

“It’s the same group of people, using the same resources, same vehicle and same tactics of gaining access to our businesses,” the owner of the restaurant noted. 

Business people who are now counting losses are asking relevant authorities to apprehend the gang before the crisis becomes full-blown. 

Police officers were said to have launched investigations into the spate of crimes attributed to the vehicle. Detectives hope to trace the original owner who registered it with the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA). 

The same vehicle was recently captured by a CCTV camera at a petrol station at Kamiti Corner, Nairobi, where the driver fled after being presented with a Ksh 5,000 bill.  

To recover the amount, the petrol station deducted the attendant who fueled the car, sparking an uproar online. 

“There is this vehicle by the reg no KDK ***K that I fueled on Friday last week Ksh5,000 and it ran away without paying,” the employee complained while asking Kenyans to assist in tracing the car. 

A photo of vehicles moving swiftly along the Thika Superhighway.

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