‘Daktari Miti Shamba’ showers neighbour with acid over horrible smell

By Brigid Chemweno

A herbalist is suspected to have splashed acid on his neighbour, who confronted him about a horrible smell coming from his Ngong home.

Patrick Wachira was during the week nursing acid burns at Kenyatta National Hospital, after he was allegedly attacked by the herbalist in Bondeni village.

Witnesses said Wachira had gone to see the herbalist to ask why there was a pungent smell was coming from his house.

Reports indicate Wachira knocked the herbalist’s door at 10pm because the smell from the house had become “unbearable”.

Witnesses said Wachira was told to wait for a while and a few minutes when the door was opened, a fluid was splashed on him.

Sources told The Nairobian that the herbalist, a former primary school teacher, moves around Ngong town selling herbal medicine.

He is known by many as ‘Daktari Miti Shamba’.