Some of the recovered containers at Changamwe Police Station in Mombasa County on Wednesday 2nd June 2021. [Kelvin Karani, Standard]A syndicate involving theft of empty containers from Mombasa can be revealed today. The stolen containers are then converted into shops and housing units that are sold across the country. “We booked for them export containers so that they could stuff their goods but they instead took the containers and sold them to different customers. “We were notified of 30 containers identified in Nyeri where the said containers were already welded together,” he said, adding that the containers belong to APM container terminal.

Source: Standard Digital June 03, 2021 20:09 UTC