Police are looking for a lorry driver who vanished with 280 bags of maize that had originated in Uganda.
The driver who worked with HG International company had left Uganda with the maize aboard a lorry headed for Mombasa.
On reaching in Luanda, Kakamega South, he diverted from the main route and switched off the tracking machine.
The lorry was later found abandoned in Mau Summit area with the maize missing.
Police said the driver is also missing after the lorry was found on the roadside.
The lorry was towed to the local police station pending further probe.
Elsewhere in Nambale along Kisumu-Busia road in the Matayos area, a lorry driver who was ferrying scrap metal was robbed of the lorry on Wednesday.
Police said the driver was heading towards Busia and had stopped at Matayos to wait for his colleague when a gang accosted him.
They attacked him with crude weapons injuring him on the head and on the left shoulder before they robbed him of his mobile phone and Sh2,000.
The robbers then threw him out and took control of the lorry to an unknown destination.
The driver was taken to Matayos health centre, where he was admitted in stable condition.
The lorry was later recovered parked in the middle of a rough road heading towards Igori general direction with the scrap metal missing.
A hunt on the attackers is ongoing, police said.
