Spate of donkey theft raises Mwea farmers' concern

Donkey owners and their employees after delivering rice to a drying field in Wang’uru town, Kirinyaga County recently. Cases of theft of donkeys are on the rise in the region, which could spell doom to the hundreds of owners and their employees. (PHOTO: JOSEPH MUCHIRI/STANDARD)

Cases of theft of donkeys are on the rise in Mwea region of Kirinyaga County, which could spell doom to the hundreds of owners and their employees.

Farmers are now up in arms following a spate of disappearances of their beasts of burden, which they suspect are being illegally slaughtered in the neighbourhood or transported to licenced abattoirs outside the county.