Coffee stolen

[Mwalimu-G]

25 bags of parchment coffee worth 500k stolen from Kangunu coffee factory in Runyenjes Central Ward last night...

 

[Meria]

Kwani kahûa ni expensive aje.
What's the weight of 1 bag?
Asking for a truck driver

 

[shocks]

Wueh, thats a big loss, na mbona these guys don't invest in good secure warehouses seeing as they are storing very valueable commodity

 

[Mwalimu-G]

Kwani kahûa ni expensive aje.
What's the weight of 1 bag?
Asking for a truck driver

50 kg bags @20k.

 

[Doc oga]

Wueh, thats a big loss, na mbona these guys don't invest in good secure warehouses seeing as they are storing very valueable commodity

The people who steal it are the same one tasked with securing it.

 

[Aviator]

50 kg bags @2k.

Mwalimu umepigwo shenga na hesabu.
If 25 bags are worth 500k, then each bag is 20k.

 

[Mwalimu-G]

Mwalimu umepigwo shenga na hesabu.
If 25 bags are worth 500k, then each bag is 20k.

You are right, ka-nzero kaliponyoka. Nita-edit

 

[Aviator]

mbona these guys don't invest in good secure warehouses seeing as they are storing very valueable commodity

Some things happen by design.
Designed to fail.

 

[Nattydread]

Kwani kahûa ni expensive aje.
What's the weight of 1 bag?
Asking for a truck driver

You are joking, no? A transporter worth his weight in salt should know that coffee has been black gold since Chepkube.

 

[Meria]

50 kg bags @20k.

A 28ton msedes can carry 560 bags worth 11.2m.
Quite an attractive magnet for highway robbers

 

[Meria]

You are joking, no? A transporter worth his weight in salt should know that coffee has been black gold since Chepkube.

If so, why are farmers uprooting it.
Been to the cendro counties this dece na nimejionea

 

[Mwalimu-G]

The watchman...going to help police with investigations.

 

[Meria]

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The watchman...going to help police with investigations.

Poor guy.
Bet he is innocent.
Saa hii kahawa iko 001

 

[Nattydread]

A 28ton msedes can carry 560 bags worth 11.2m.
Quite an attractive magnet for highway robbers

They'd murder you for that bounty without qualms.

 

[Mwalimu-G]

Poor guy.
Bet he is innocent.
Saa hii kahawa iko 001

...au Thika

 

[Nattydread]

If so, why are farmers uprooting it.
Been to the cendro counties this dece na nimejionea

The farmers uprooting it are those bound by the traditional thieving coffee marketing channels.

Those that have found their way to the auctions or more honest agencies are making a killing. Kenyan coffee is highly valued because it is used to improve inferior types during blending.

 

[Nattydread]

Poor guy.
Bet he is innocent.
Saa hii kahawa iko 001

Not necessarily. It could be stashed in a warehouse belonging to a big politician/policeman farmer, to be added to his December harvest.

 

[Meria]

They'd murder you for that bounty without qualms.

High value merchandise is normally escorted by armed pambas.
Am talking of phones and laptops.
A container may be over 50m depending on brand.
Kuna ingine ya medicine worth 60m that was hijacked near voi.
The consignment was recovered a month later in the bonobos appartments in miritini.

 

[Nattydread]

High value merchandise is normally escorted by armed pambas.
Am talking of phones and laptops.
A container may be over 50m depending on brand.

Problem with coffee is that it is harvested, shelled, dried and bagged in an extremely slow, almost primitive process in cooperative collecting points. It can be stolen at any point: off the bushel, during transfer to factory, on the drying beds, or dry in bags as happened above. You cannot hire Pamba along the whole chain.

 

[Clemens]

Sad situation for the farmers, being shafted by two kind of thieves, the blue and white collars.