Family Bank managers at Ruiru branch have been arrested in connection to the theft of over Sh. 20 million at the bank last weekend.
According to the Daily nation, the three managers were arrested together with a security guard. “A source who requested anonymity has said three managers based at the branch and a security guard have been arrested and are being grilled over the theft that local residents said they were not even aware of,” the paper reports.
On Monday, Family Bank said that it reported the break-in to relevant authorities and that the robbery is under investigation. “Family Bank confirms that there was a break-in incident at our Ruiru branch over the weekend of June 14-18, 2018…We wish to inform our customers that the our Ruiru branch is fully operational and open for business,” it said in a statement.
An OB report at Ruiru reveals that a security manager conducting routine checks of the premises discovered there had been a robbery after finding that the alarm system had been tampered with. The police were alerted, who then rushed to the scene and established that thieves had broken into the bank during the night at an unknown time by cutting through the rooftop.
According to reports, the robbers used welding gas and clawbars to access the strongroom and the branch ATM machine. A gas cylinder and four clawbars were recovered at the scene. Family Bank is only the latest lender to be targeted by daring robbers in the last 12 months as attacks on Kenyan lenders grow bolder.
