Residents of Mwamba village in Lugari Sub County were left in shock after a Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC) official was caught committing bestiality with a sheep belonging to a local resident.
The sheep’s owner, Mrs. Mariam Chitechi, told Westfm.co.ke that the KPLC worker committed the sexual offense on the animal inside her immediate neighbor’s maize plantation.
“The man was in the company of other KPLC workers who were inspecting and disconnecting illegal power connections within Mwamba village,” said Mrs. Chitechi, adding that the team was conducting the same exercise at her home when the odd incident happened.
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According to Mariam, the man began exhibiting strange characteristics towards the sheep, which was by then grazing on her compound.
“I twice spotted him struggle to untie the sheep, but when asked, he claimed he was helping the animal untangle its legs from the rope,” said the woman.
She added that since she did not suspect any ill motive, she proceeded on with her household chores after the man went out of the gate claiming to join his colleagues who then continued to inspect power connections in the village.
Unknown to Mariam and the team, the man returned secretly and drove the sheep into the neighbor’s maize plantation where he committed the obscenity.
She said that as she carried on with her household chores, her attention was caught by the noise of a lamb and when she rushed to see what was going on she found its mother missing.
“I searched for my sheep in my farm in vain, I went as far as the place where the KPLC lorry had been parked but I only saw new faces, the man whom I suspected of taking away my sheep was not there,” said Mrs. Chitechi.
She later informed her son and other young men from the village who took to different directions in the maize farm and village roads in search for the missing sheep.
“Later, I heard my neighbor Mrs. Elizabeth Mutenyo saying that someone was raping my sheep. I rushed to the direction and on reaching the scene the sheep ran towards me,” she explained.
According to Mrs. Mutenyo she heard a strange sound from her maize farm and when rushed there to establish what was going on, she was shocked to get the man believed to be over 50 years of age red handed sodomizing the animal.
“In fact to him it looked normal because he wasn’t ashamed and on seeing me he was so courageous to greet me. She said.
“ It was until I raised alarm that he let the sheep free, pulled up his trouser and disappeared into the maize plantation,” explained Mrs. Mutenyo adding that prior to the incident she had earlier caught the man in her compound trying to touch her heifer’s private parts after he had disconnected power in the compound before he left to Chitechi’s compound.
The incident attracted a huge crowd of residents who took the sheep to the KPLC vehicle that had been parked, tied it on the lorry and demanded that the suspect be brought forward before they could allow the lorry to leave the village.
The residents engaged KPLC officials in a bitter exchange of words for several hours disrupting the normal activities in the village.
It took the intervention of the administration police officers who arrived at the scene and drove the sheep and its owner to Turbo police station promising to take a legal action against the suspect to calm the situation.
The KPLC workers cut short their tour of duty and left the village in haste after the locals had threatened to torch their canter.
Mrs. Chitechi has however accused the KPLC officials on site for denying her sheep justice by refusing to give details that could help trace their colleague whom they alleged that they only knew him as Munyendo from Mumias town.
“The officer at the crime desk at Turbo police station together with the OCS were much willing to push the case forward but unfortunately the suspect was nowhere to be found and his colleagues ran away after they refused to give his details,” lamented Mrs. Chitechi.