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Residents use boats to cross Yala swamp in Budala Village, Busia County. The swamp hosts the Abakoni's 'Ndekwe Shrine' where youths and women are not allowed to go to. [Mumo Munuve, Standard]
Whenever he fails to get a proper catch of fish in the deep waters or even the climate doesn’t work in his favour, Joseph Odongo soaks himself in the Yala Swamp at Ndekwe Shrine for 'special' prayers to the ancestors.
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