Donkey ‘raped’ and murdered in Narok

By Charles Ngeno

Residents of Kapkona village in Mulot Division, Narok County, woke up a fortnight ago to a bizarre incident that left women screaming with shock and grief.

They discovered a donkey carcass tied to a tree with indications that it had been ‘raped’.

The owner of the donkey, a 70-year-old woman, is said to have asked her grandchildren to go and fetch water at Amalo River using the donkey. Unfortunately, it was nowhere to be seen.

A search party of young children was quickly dispatched to a bush uphill. After a short while, the children came home running, saying they had seen the donkey tied to a tree, dead.

Mutilated

Thinking the young ones were pulling a prank on her, the elderly woman dismissed them and sent her eldest son to go and drive the donkey home. But what her son saw dumbfounded him.

The donkey lay in a bush with its hind legs tied apart on tree branches. A cursory glance revealed something or someone had tampered with or mutilated her reproductive organ. Its front legs were tied too and the beast of burden was lifeless.

Besides the dead donkey were a mosquito net, a jumper and a rubber shoe. A few metres away lay another shoe.

He took the astonishing news back to her mother who was too old to walk uphill.

Word quickly went round the village and all came to see for themselves the beastly act that stunned the young and the old.

Abominable

The shocked women soon started screaming as if one of their own had passed on. They accused the men of lowering themselves to beasts.

They shouted to all that women were in plenty and wondered whatreally drove a man to do such an abominable act.

Their message was clear: whoever was unable to sweet talk a fair woman, they were ready to assist him.

Just then, bees in a nearby hive, as if angry to see a fellow beast undergo such gross humiliation and indignity, began to chase people who were streaming to see a beast of burden that had served its master with distinction, only to meet an unkind and beastly end.

All were united in condemning the beastly act. Elders said this was an incident that bordered on insanity. Led by the local village elder John Koech, the elders resolved and investigate the person(s) behind the shameful act.

“Such individuals are a threat to the well being of this village. They might even rape young children and old women and kill them,” said Koech.

Optimistic

Local assistant chief Joseph Korir said such an act had not been heard of in the area before and wondered what sort of a person did it.

He said that no one had been clearly identified as responsible.

He was optimistic that the leads they were following would enable them nab whoever carried out the despicable and criminal act.