Police in Nairobi have arrested a househelp accused of staging a daring robbery against her employer before fleeing.
Rita Akinyi Yohana is said to have gone into hiding after pulling off the robbery that saw her employer lose valuable items and money in dollars.
On March 11, 2025, a report was made at Spring Valley Police Station that a househelp that was working at the house for around 15 months now had stolen a safe that had valuable items including the family passports, foreign national IDs, 4,000 US dollars, gold coins, Diwali statues, a pen drive, a hard disk, bank locker keys, perfumes and other belongings.
Detectives from DCI Nairobi Region Headquarters augmented by their Dagoretti counterparts visited the scene of crime, and discovered that the safe previously secured with screws in a wardrobe had been expertly unscrewed and was missing.
Through forensic-led intelligence, Akinyi was smoked out of her hideout in Kawangware’s Congo Maumau area, bringing the chase to an end.
A search of her residence uncovered a trove of stolen items, including 29 one-hundred-dollar notes, assorted Indian Rupees, perfumes, and women’s purses all traced back to her employer.
“Akinyi confessed to discarding the ransacked safe in the murky depths of River Maumau,” the DCI says. “With help from local divers, detectives managed to retrieve the safe from the riverbed only to find it emptied of its contents.”
Akinyi is currently in police custody undergoing processing pending arraignment.
Meanwhile, the recovered items have been securely preserved to be used as exhibits in the robbery case against Akinyi.
