And then, to the bank robbers’ dismay, technology came like an earthquake. It is natural for human beings to want more, and bank employees cannot be an exception. Every other bank robbery was described simply as an inside job. Nairobi’s reputation for bank robberies filtered across the Atlantic ocean with the American newspaper Loss Angeles Times in 1998 noting in an article that in the last quarter of 1998, at least one bank a week was held up in Nairobi. In Kenya’s capital city, Nairobi, robbers ran amok that its name was corrupted into ‘Nai-robbery.’ It was the period when some of Kenya’s most feared robbers operated.

Source: Standard Digital June 20, 2016 20:26 UTC