Women strip colleague naked for indecent dressing

BY PONCIANO ODONGO

Kitengela, Kajiado County: Administration Police officers had to rescue a woman from a posho mill after she was attacked by fellow women who alleged that she was dressed indecently.

Women traders at Kitengela market yesterday descended on the lady tearing off all her clothes and leaving her in her birthday suit.

The woman was dressed in what they claimed was a micro-mini skirt that left her almost nude. She found herself on the wrong side after she abused one of the grocers who told her that her way of dressing was a shame to any mature woman.

But sadly, she retorted by abusing the woman that she had no problem dressing the way she wanted as long as she was
satisfying her husband.

“It is my choice if your men are dissatisfied they can as well come to me. Stop being stupid,” she yelled.

But as soon as she abused the woman, hell broke loose as the grocers in the market started beating her up. They stripped her naked and frog-marched her on the road before a good Samaritan gave her a space in a posho mill that was immediately locked.

The incident attracted hundreds of onlookers as others demanded that she comes out of the posho mill. Her shredded clothes were tied on sticks that young men waved  in the air.

“Let her come out. She wanted to be naked and that is what we have helped her to become,” said a grocer.

Just before the curious members of the public broke down the posho mill door, Kitengela assistant chief Alex Kang'ethe and administration police officers came to her rescue.

The police officers covered her with a posho mill dust coat and whisked her away in the GK landrover. She was taken to Kitengela police station where she was assisted into more decent clothes.

The drama and confusion left a neighbouring shop counting losses after a refrigerator was toppled and hundreds of  soda bottles broke.

“This is a lesson to the rest that people must dress decently or get into trouble,” said a lady who identified herself as Lydia.

The men present were a happy lot as the warning did not come from them as has been the case in past incidents.

“This good work done by the women themselves. They should learn how to dress properly,” said George Mwenda.