Machakos: Woman accused of using witchcraft to delay rains evicted by angry neighbours
A mother of eight was evicted from her family
home at Kisewani village in Yatta, Machakos County, by enraged neighbours who
accused her of being responsible for the region's failed rains.
According to reports, angry neighbours who
accused the 48-year-old woman of being a witch doctor raided her home on
Tuesday, tearing down the roof of her house and removing all of her belongings.
In accusations that read like something out
of a horror film, the neighbours claimed that the woman possessed a male
reproductive organ, which she allegedly brandishes in the morning to keep the
rains away.
The neighbours are said to have slaughtered a
goat and forced the woman to consume its entrails and blood as part of an
elaborate cleansing ritual.
Several photos obtained by Citizen Digital
show household items allegedly removed from the woman's house strewn by the
roadside, as a contingent of armed police officers stood guard, possibly to
restore order in the quiet village.
According to Machakos Deputy County Commissioner
Lilian Njagi, who led the operation on Tuesday, the woman will be relocated to
a nearby police station because she has a Class 8 student who is scheduled to sit
exams next week.
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