By MN Reporter
Lichota residents around a cemetery managed by the county government are living in fear as marauding hyenas scavenge on poorly disposed bodies.
At night howling hyenas keep fearful residents indoors.
“In the morning what remains are bodies pulled from shallow graves with bone strewn all across the graveyard,” Emma Ombura, Kiterere village elder said.
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On June 18, when the press visited the cemetery a white human shoulder bone strewn clean of flesh met the team. Nearby a leg bone crashed also nearby.
A total of about ten fresh grave had a process of either being completely unearthed scavengers with bones, flesh, blankets and body bags for burial strewn across the site.
Pastor Reuben Choga, a villager said the hyenas only started terrorizing them weeks ago after they started losing sheep and their children started having weird games when playing which revolved around dead bodies in graves.
In October 2017 residents also complained of trauma and risk of contracting diseases as dogs exhume bodies from poor maintained in the same public cemetery.
Environment Executive Rebbeca Maroa said because of Covid 19 restrictions she was working from home and the issue was not in her comment and directed it to be handled by her health counterpart Kephas Nyamita.
“It is an environment hazard, but at the department we dispose garbage and not bodies,” she said.
Nyamita said the county does not recognise the site which was inherited from council and they have never buried a body there.
“Sometimes it is locals who bury there, we have never buried a body at the siite. I will find out about it” Nyamita said.
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