Two men branded as among Kenya's most wanted criminals were arrested yesterday.

Mr David Mwololo Wambua and Mr Joseph Obiero Onyango alias Malik Onyango Anyango, were seized in their hideouts in Nairobi.

They surrendered when they were ambushed by a team of officers from the CID and Special Crime Prevention Unit.

Mr Wambua was arrested at Kirinyaga Road, while Mr Onyango was flushed out of his hideout in the Kibera slums.

Early this month, police announced a Sh50,000 reward for anyone volunteering information that would lead to the arrest of the nine men.

The two were not armed at the time of their arrests and are under interrogation, police said.

The prevention unit's deputy chief, Mr Joseph Ngisa, said police, acting on a tip-off, arrested Mr Onyango at 4 am near the Kibera Law Courts.

Mr Ngisa said the suspect escaped from Ayany estate after his picture was published and moved to the slums. 

He allegedly told police that he was not a criminal but he received proceeds of criminal activity. "He told us that he had received Sh5,000 and Sh10,000 several times when criminals shared money in his house," Mr Ngisa told the Nation by telephone yesterday.

He said the two were "the real people we were looking for".Mr Ngisa alleged that the two were among those who participated in robberies where Transnational Bank and Post Bank lost about Sh13 million in hours.