A housekeeper who disappeared after reportedly planning a bold theft at her boss’s house has been taken into custody.
After working for the family for 15 months, Rita Akinyi Yohana was captured by Nairobi detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI).
After allegedly stealing a safe full of expensive items, such as family passports, foreign national IDs, gold coins, a hard drive, Diwali figurines, and $4,000 (about Ksh. 517,800) in cash, the suspect fled into hiding.
On March 11, 2025, the employer went to the Spring Valley Police Station to report the occurrence.
Authorities were eventually directed by forensic intelligence to the Congo Maumau region of Kawangware, where Akinyi was discovered hiding.
A later investigation of her home turned up a stockpile of stolen goods, including women’s purses, perfumes, different denominations of Indian Rupees, and 29 one-hundred-dollar bills that could all be linked to her employer.
Akinyi further admitted to throwing the plundered safe into the muddy depths of the Maumau River. Detectives were able to recover the safe from the riverbed with the assistance of local divers, but they discovered that it was completely empty of its contents,” the DCI continued.
The goods that were found have been securely stored as exhibits, and Akinyi is currently being held by the police pending his arraignment in court.
