KK Security employee disappears with Sh25 million in Nairobi

A hunt on an employee of a security firm is ongoing after he disappeared with Sh25 million he was transporting on landing at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi.

The employee was flying from Nyali in Mombasa to Nairobi carrying the money in foreign currencies and was to deliver to Trust Bank when the incident happened on Tuesday morning.

Police have identified the wanted KK Security employee as Hudson Nyasaka.

Airport police boss Rono Bunei said the KK Security employees reported the matter two hours after the man had left the airport.

“By the time they came to report, the man had alighted and left the airport. The hunt on him is ongoing,” he said.

Nyasaka had apparently told his colleagues he would land at JKIA at 9.30 am while in reality he was landing at 7.30 am.

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Further, he told the employees who were to pick him with armed police officers that he would land Terminal 1 but he in reality was landing at Terminal 2, police said.

When the colleagues arrived at the terminal they had been told Nyasaka would land, they were informed the plane had landed elsewhere two hours earlier.

“He had arrived aboard a Fly 540 flight and it seems he misled his colleagues who were to pick him. He then switched off his phone to avoid being followed,” said Bunei.

The cash was in foreign currencies of USD 50,000, 98,500 Euros and 90,000 Swiss Franc.

Police had visited his homes and those of relatives in vain.

In March 2014 another staff with the same company disappeared with Sh21.6 million that he was transporting from Mombasa to Nairobi.

After alighting in Nairobi, he did not call his colleagues as expected to pick him up. He vanished.

Meanwhile, police are looking for a gang that broke into a house of a Chinese contractor and stole Sh1 million in Nairobi’s Kamiti area.

The contractor who works at a site in Kamiti area was at work on Saturday but when he came back he found it broken into and the money missing.

Police say they suspect the thieves were known to the complainant and were aware of the cash there. A hunt on them is ongoing.