Mic Cheque Podcast has lost expensive production equipment after thieves broke into its tour bus during a visit to Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT). The team says the stolen items are worth more than Sh700,000.
The theft happened on the afternoon of Thursday, while the podcast hosts, Chaxy, Mwass, and Mariah, were on campus for their university tour.
According to the team, someone entered the tour bus and took several valuable electronic devices.
In a public statement, Mic Cheque Podcast wrote: “This afternoon at JKUAT for our university tour, someone accessed our tour bus and stole the items below: 3 MacBook Pros & 1 MacBook Air, 1 iPhone 13, 8 SSD cards, 2 headphone sets.”
The stolen equipment included three MacBook Pro laptops, one MacBook Air, an iPhone 13, eight solid-state drives (SSDs), and two sets of headphones.
These devices are important for recording, storing, and producing the podcast’s audio and video content.
The podcast team immediately asked Kenyans to help recover the stolen items. They urged people to be alert if they see the laptops, phone, SSDs, or headphones being sold online, in shops, or anywhere else.
Anyone with information was asked to call 0705 540 697 or report the matter to the nearest police station.
The team also shared details of the stolen items publicly so that buyers and resellers could identify them.
The loss is a major setback for the show because the MacBooks and SSDs are key production tools.
Reports estimated the value of the stolen items at more than Sh700,000, with the laptops making up the largest part of the loss.
The incident comes at a time when Kenyans have raised concern about theft of valuable electronics and production equipment.
Recently, detectives recovered a large collection of suspected stolen electronics from a Parklands residence and two commercial warehouses in Ruaka.
The recovered items included 25 high-end digital cameras, broadcast lenses, digital mixing consoles, industrial generators, and other equipment believed to have been stolen from churches in Nairobi.
Investigators also traced five professional cameras and an audio interface card, valued at more than Sh2.1 million, that had been stolen from a church in Donholm.
The same investigation was linked to an earlier case involving entertainer DJ Macdee. His Pioneer audio mixer, valued at Sh350,000, was stolen from his vehicle in July 2026 and later traced to a shop in Parklands using its serial number.
The Mic Cheque Podcast theft has caused concern among fans and fellow creatives, as the team is now relying on public support, serial-number tracking, and police assistance to recover the stolen devices.