Ngong M-Pesa Agent Grateful To God After Thieves Rob Shop, Fail To Notice KSh 10k She Left Behind

• An employee at an M-Pesa agent was unable to control her tears after her business money survived a burglary by a whisker
• The intruders had forcibly broken into the shop at night but, somehow, failed to notice the KSh 10,000 she had left on the counter the previous evening
• As it happened, the robbers hurriedly rummaged through the shop and threw things around, inadvertently concealing the same money they had come to steal

An M-Pesa agent in Ngong was unable to control her tears after her shop was broken into but the burglars missed the cash she had left behind.

The unknown robbers had been on a spree and broken into several businesses in the complex, making away with whatever they could steal, a video shared by Elveza Media shows.

Robbers covered the bundle of cash

They managed to steal a few items, but in their haste, they left behind KSh 10,000 that the attendant had left in the premises when she closed the previous day.

As fellow business owners rummaged through their shops to assess the damage, the unnamed woman was counting her blessings.

"Nilikuwa nimeziweka hapa. Sasa vile walifungua, walisongeza hii mbao na kuzifunikia zaidi so hazikuonekana" (The cash was here. When they broke in, they moved this wooden panel essentially hiding the money even more), she said with tears in her eyes.

The unexpected discovery left the agent, as well as witnesses around the shop, in a state of astonishment and gratitude.

Members of public angry at police

In the wake of the unfortunate incident, members of the public expressed their disappointment at the laxity witnessed by security officers in the area.

The Ngong market traders urged the management to beef up security to prevent a repeat of the theft, adding that insecurity had become rampant in the area.

Mary Chesire:

"Ngong is becoming very insecure. Thugs are on the run breaking homes and businesses. Hopefully, the police will up their game and restore security."

Brian Muiruri

"They should investigate and charge them all. Our mothers are struggling to bring food on the table and this is happening."

As the M-Pesa lady thanked God for saving the money, eyewitnesses advised her to give tithe to the church as a show of gratitude.

She is hopeful that the culprits will be brought to justice even as she continues to hold onto the positive outcome of the situation.

M-Pesa fraud on the rise

Cases of M-Pesa agents losing money to fraudsters have been rampant in Kenya in recent years both in towns and the rural areas.

In once incident, Allan Lwala revealed that he lost a float of KSh 88,000 after a conman posing as a customer visited his shop in Nyalenda, Kisumu.

Given the rise in the number of thefts, Kenyans have been advised to separately use the M-Pesa line to only perform M-Pesa tasks.