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Bizarre fires guts down huts in Siaya County
Updated Saturday, September 14th 2013 at 17:41 GMT +3
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| One of the burnt houses in Nyandheho in Nyadorera, Siaya county. [Photo: Lawrence Aluru/Standard]
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BY LAWRENCE ALURU
Mysterious fires in Siaya County's Nyandheho Village have left more than 13 families homeless.
The freakish fires has been reducing one house after another to ashes in the last two weeks, as the affected families wonder who is next.
The charred remains of some of their possessions - beddings, kitchen utensils, food and clothes - lay in the ruins. The remaining furniture that they managed to pull out of the fire was strewn across the nearby open field as they kept watch over it.
Women and children are now forced to spend the night under trees as the number continues increasing day by day.
Usonga Disaster Committee chairman Paul Okome said the bizarre fire has left the residents in shock and disbelief.
The chairman added that some of the displaced victims have been forced to seek refuge at relatives' homes while others are putting up under trees in open fields as per the Luo tradition.
The tradition requires that a person whose home has been reduced by fire should not seek refuge in another house until and when rituals are performed to cleanse him or her.
Ms Quintoline Atieno, a widow and a mother of five, expressed pain after all her belongings including farm produce were burned to ashes.
Atieno and her father-in-law, Mr Dismas Odhiambo, are among the latest casualties, as their house was the latest to go up in flames.
"I was informed by my neighbour that my house was on fire. The rescuers were only able to salvage a bucket of water and two sufurias," said a weeping Atieno.
Usonga Disaster Secretary Mrs Merceline Omollo also associated the bizarre fire to witchcraft.
"We don't know where the fire is coming from because those perceived to be the key suspects were arrested and the cases of fire were on the rise. There is a special kind of bat that is causing the fire and I urge religious leaders to intervene on the matter," she said.
While confirming the incident the area Assistant Chief of Nyadorera "A" Sub-location Mr Silvester Amouk also claimed that the fire spread as a result of witchcraft.
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