TRICKS THUGS USE TO ROB PASSENGERS OF THEIR LUGGAGE AND CASH IN MATATUS

While in Matatus; most likely the prey get drugged and robbed of their belongings while unconscious as the thugs alight along the way leaving them with nothing.  Always make sure that you know where your luggage is and learn not to put all your cash in one place; even veterans get pick-pocketed and never realize how it happened. Let us be vigilant enough and uncover the tactics these criminals use to rob and get to know how they operate.

Ø  In matatus, more especially buses, there are these people who pretend to be passengers but their real intention is to drug genuine passengers and rob them of their belongings.

These criminals will sit next to you and at times pretend as if they are trying to put on or remove a sweater and intentionally pass their hands near your nose so that you may inhale the substance.  Without realizing it you get unconscious and they rob you and alight from the matatu, by the time you get back to your senses, you have nothing and you are left stranded in unfamiliar place.

They (thugs) at times carry paper bags and sit next to the person they intend to rob and once their time to execute their plan reaches they pretend to be removing something from the paper bags while trying to block your face with their arms not knowing that those arms are the ones with the drug.

Ø  While in a matatu (more especially the Nissan Matatus), be careful with your phone and even ladies’ bags.  These criminals always target matatus that are a bit low more especially Nissan matatus, in this way they don’t have to strain trying to reach their target.  They would spot a passenger with a phone most likely those sitting near the window. They follow the matatu swiftly knowing that there is a point the matatu will slow down due to traffic jam. Once the matatu slows down, within a second they have opened the window taken the phone and disappeared into thin air. Some of them will stay in areas characterized with huge traffic jam and wait to attack from there.

Ø  Mostly in long distance travel; some of the criminals will get into buses and sit next to their target and once the bus stops for people to stretch out and eat something before they proceed, they pretend to have bought something and would like to share with their prey.  Unknowingly, since the person might be looking so presentable and may have had a chat along the way; the victim might agree to take what is being offered, therefore getting drugged and robbed of everything they had. 

Beware that these criminals can get cash from your pocket/bag without you realizing it; and this is done in broad daylight and when you are very conscious.  This doesn't necessarily happen in areas that are considered the most dangerous. Crime in Nairobi kenya happens in many ways.