BURGLARY
JANUARY 13, 2010
Computers worth more than sh one million were stolen yesterday morning after burglars broke into the Mombasa Technical Training Institute.
The theft is the third in three months after similar incidences happened in October and December last year.
The institution’s principal Mursal Bashir said 20 of the 37 computers stolen had just been bought the previous day after the institution decided to replace those stolen earlier.
Officers from the criminal investigation department had visited the institution to start investigation.
A total of 74 computers have so far been stolen.
Dean of students Muoku Kioko said though no arrests have been made in all the incidents, the institution’s security guards are suspected to have colluded with outsiders to steal the property.
In the first incident that happened in October, a guard had tricked his colleague to eat drugged food before he colluded with others to steal 17 computers from the institution’s I T department.
Then in the second that happened on Christmas day when the institution had been closed, another guard was given a soda that was also drugged before the other stole 20 computers from the same IT department’s computer laboratory.
The two watchmen have never been seen at the institution since the incidences happened.
Bashir appealed to the police to ensure the culprits are brought to book as the loss was too big for the institution to bear.
“We had not even paid for these new computers that were stolen and each would cost us Sh 48, 000,” he said.
He said both of the guards on duty had vanished from the institution and one had left behind his uniform.
Bashir also appealed to students to remain calm as arrangements are being done to ensure learning is not interrupted.
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