A KK Security staff who escaped with Sh25 million that he was transporting from Mombasa to Nairobi has been arrested.
Hudson Nyasaka was arrested in Homa Bay on Sunday alongside three others after being in hiding since August 11.
Police are looking for more suspects. Nyasaka was transporting the cash from Mombasa airport to JKIA when he went missing.
The cash, which was in foreign currencies of 50,000 US Dollars, 98,500 Euros and 90,000 Swiss Francs, was to be delivered to Trust Bank in Nairobi.
Police arrested him in a room in the town. He has since been moved to Nairobi with his accomplices.
Series of Events on August 11
Airport police boss Rono Bunei said the KK Security employees reported the matter two hours after the man had left the airport.
“By the time they came to report, the man had alighted and left the airport. The hunt on him is ongoing,” he said.
Nyasaka had apparently told his colleagues he would land at JKIA at 9.30 am while in reality he was landing at 7.30 am.
Further, he told the employees who were to pick him with armed police officers that he would land Terminal 1 but he in reality was landing at Terminal 2, police said.
When the colleagues arrived at the terminal they had been told Nyasaka would land, they were informed the plane had landed elsewhere two hours earlier.
“He had arrived aboard a Fly 540 flight and it seems he misled his colleagues who were to pick him. He then switched off his phone to avoid being followed,” said Bunei.