Police in Enkorika, Kajiado County, are investigating an incident where a group of women invaded a 10-acre farm and uprooted all miraa plants.
Lucy Kennedy says that the Maa community women in their hundreds invaded her farm, left behind by her late husband, and destroyed her source of livelihood without any justification.
“I have no husband, and I am relying on this farm to educate my children. The government should act fast and arrest those who did this to my crops,” Lucy said, as reported by The Star.
The women who raided the farm claim that miraa had made their husbands zombies and that they were spending a lot of money on buying and chewing the plant while drinking beer.
The women also claim that their men were underperforming sexually because of the plant.
One of the women, Selina Parit, alleged that a teacher from Nalala School died recently after engaging in miraa chewing and drinking alcohol. But Lucy has dismissed as baseless those allegations.
According to Lucy, the teacher died after a fight with family members.
She says that she earns KSh20,000 a week from the crop, and that she mainly sells her miraa in Kajiado town and Isinya, and not Enkorika.
