Kisauni OCPD Christopher Rotich addressing journalists at a past event. [Photo/ the-star.co.ke]
Police in Mombasa have launched a manhunt for two suspected robbers said to have stolen money from a butcher and an M-Pesa outlet in the town.
Kisauni OCPD Christopher Rotich said the two men were armed with a pistol and operate mostly in Old Town.
On Sunday, they robbed a butcher off an unknown amount of money at gunpoint before descending on an M-Pesa shop in Bamburi and stole over Sh20,000.
“We are yet to establish their identities. They are swift in their operation, but our officers are on the ground trailing them. We are yet to know if they operate with informers on the ground,” Rotich told journalists on Sunday.
The Sunday incident came three days after another group of suspected thugs attacked an Indian businessman along Mama Ngina Street. They were however, unlucky as the man whose identity police concealed did not have money.
The attack victim told police he saved his luxurious mobile phone from being taken by the criminals after hiding it at the back of his car seat.
Mombasa County has of late experienced recurrent cases of criminality. Two members of an outlawed group- Wakali Kwanza- were arrested on Friday.
The group has links with local leaders and plays an important role in campaigning for the politicians during electioneering period. Law enfacement agencies, however, accuse some of group members of promoting criminality.
Coast Regional Commissioner Nelson Marwa has been commended for restoring sanity in Coast after successfully neutralizing some criminal gangs in the region.