This archive report was first published on 4 July 2020.
On July 3, 2020, police in Nairobi recovered stolen shoes worth Ksh1.5 million from a house in Obama Estate in Kayole.
The shoes, manufactured by Bata Company, were allegedly acquired using faulty vouchers from different Bata outlets in Nairobi by a suspected fraudster named Peter Matheka.
Matheka, a former employee of Bata, is suspected to have conspired with current workers at the different Bata shops to steal the shoes, according to Kayole OCPD Isaac Thuranira.
Neighbours reported seeing a lorry filled with cartons containing shoes being offloaded and the shoes stashed in Matheka’s house.
It is suspected that Matheka and his accomplices planned to sell the shoes when schools reopened.
