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‘Witch burning’ is a crime and has nothing to do with culture

Janeth Moraa at their house that was torched after her mother Jemima Nyangate was hacked to death at Marani in Kisii County. [Sammy Omingo, Standard]

One of the four victims of the October 17 attacks in Kisii targeting suspected witches had buried her husband two weeks before she met her death at the hands of a blood-thirsty mob.

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