Motor vehicle thefts up 22pc as Kiambu tops crime reports
Motor vehicle theft shot up by 22 per cent last year as crime levels continued to soar, the 2017 Economic Survey shows.
The data shows that 1,355 vehicles were reported stolen to the police in 2016 compared to the 1,111 the year before.
The Economic Survey indicates that crime went up by 6.2 per cent to 76,986 from the 72,450 cases recorded in 2015.
A recent report by the Association of Kenya Insurers (AKI) indicates that vehicles whose value is below Sh1 million are the most likely to be stolen.
The AKI reported that out of the 406 cars reported stolen to insurers, 71 per cent were of the Toyota brand while 51 per cent were white in colour.
Silver, black, blue and grey vehicles, in that order also made it to the list of cars stolen most frequently.
:D:D:D:D I’ve witnessed this. There’s also a full grown male sitting down on tarmac, hand on temple, trying to rationalize and imagine where else he may have left the car.
There’s a common saying in many Kiambu homesteads.
‘No matter the poverty you were brought in, at a certain age you must own a metallic car part’.
And that’s the genesis of car thefts in the county.