Details have emerged about a car theft syndicate that steals cars, dismantles and disposes of them in under two hours.
The Standard has uncovered that there is a racket at the heart of Kariobangi Light Industry where cars are taken apart on a 24-hour basis.
The culprits buy jammers that they use to disable car alarms. They wait for an unsuspecting victim to exit their car, then activate the device which fools the owner that the car has been locked.
The assailants also jam the GPS tracker and continue to drive east of Nairobi CBD towards the industrious town.
A stolen car at Kariobangi is disposed of off to rogue mechanics for as little as Kshs 80,000.
The car is disassembled carefully but with speed and its parts are sold for cheap prices.
The rising number of car thefts have forced owners to devise ingenious ways of safeguarding their vehicles.
With Kshs 5,000 vehicle owners can fit an engine immobiliser that prevents the engine from running unless the gadget is nearby.
That means that if the car is stolen, it will still go off if driven beyond 20 metres.
Another gadget referred to as an electronic immobiliser also prevents the car engine from running unless the correct code is detected.
The vehicle is tagged with a microchip the size of a rice grain that exchanges information with the immobiliser.
