By DCI
If you thought witchdoctors were only used to cause harm in society, you better reconsider your thoughts.
This is after as a witchdoctor in Botsotso, Kakamega County, used his magical powers to help the police track down livestock thieves and bring them to book.
In an incident that brought activities in Emusanda village to standstill, three men who had been attacked by a swarm of bees emerged, carrying on their shoulders the stolen goat and a calf, as they bleated and mooed onomatopoeically, like the animals.
This after the owner of the livestock Tolibert Imbiakah, 42, visited the benevolent witchdoctor, after waking up two days ago only to find the animals missing from their pen.
The witch doctor visited the man’s compound and conducted some rituals at the enclosure while mumbling some incantations, then left telling the owner not to worry as the thugs would come looking for him after two days.
True to his words, on Friday, May 27, 2922, at 10 am, three men, Hillary Momanyi, 22, John Bukhazio, 28, and Winston Mutiele, 20, emerged, their hands mobbed by swarms of bees as they carried the animals aloft bleating and mooing rhythmically.
The owner of the animals emerged and positively identified his stock as the witch doctor took possession of his bees before handing over the apologetic thugs to authorities.
The Officer Commanding Kakamega Police Station (OCS) commended the witchdoctor for helping him bring to book the two thugs, who were behind the spate of criminal activities in the area.
“We equally commend the witchdoctor whose contacts we have reserved, for working for the good of the society,” said the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI).