By Anchor Reporter
Burglars have once again returned to Machakos Hospital less than a month after stealing 14 computers at the County Lands and Energy headquarters
The incident at the hospital underlines suspicions that the buglers are county government insiders.
Suspected burgler's Image captured on CCTV
Police say the thieves only broke a padlock latch and then opened the door using a key.
It is the same style used as they accessed the Lands offices at an unknown day and time between December 22 and 26, 2023.
The offices was found open on December 27 when the theft was discovered. No door was broken to gain access to the offices located between the Machakos County Commissioner's office, Machakos Deputy County Commissioner's office, and the Machakos National Intelligence Service offices
No recovery or arrests have been made in the hospital incident, and police suspect that the thieves were targeting important procurement data stored in the computers.
The incident occurred on Thursday, January 18, in darkness.
As is usual with buglaries in county offices, the thieves use duplicate or master keys to enter their targetted areas. This time round,they opened hospital’s chest clinic and a room known as Room 4 that is used by the clinic's nurses.
Police say the thieves carted away the three desktop computers from the chest clinic and also took a desktop computer from Room 4.
Investigators are piecing together their findings to compare them with other findings from buglaries in other county offices.
" They want to understand if it is one gang of buglers or if they are separate gangs competing to steal desktops from county offices.
However police seem convinced that the buglars are targeting data stored in the machines that have the potential to incriminate some officials.
Curiously, no arrests have been made , nor has there been
recovery of the vital public assets.
Machakos County offices are rarely guarded as happens with offices of the central government where armed APs are routinely deployed when offices close.
The county administration occasionally post County Askaris, whose training revolves around enforcement of by- laws rather than crime detection and deterrence.
It is the second burglary to be reported at the hospital as many months after thieves broke into the office of the Health Minister Daniel Yumbya.
