Hundreds of women chanting traditional songs thronged the homestead of Ms Karegi Thiura to protest her actions and later frog-marched her to a field for a cursing rituals.
Mr. Thiura had escaped narrowly from lynching by young men who threatened to strip her and beat her up in public for disrespecting them. She is said to have had sex with sons of women her age, which is against the community norms.
A resident said that the woman was fined five sufurias of rice and three sufurias of soup which will be eaten by women;
The woman is a disgrace to the community and therefore an outcast. She is not allowed to talk to any woman in the village. Any woman found talking to her will be fined the same number of sufurias. The food is to be eaten by women during a cleansing ceremony. If she pays the fine of eight sufurias of food, she will be accepted back to the community
The women were angered when the woman started shouting the names of the young men she had slept with, threatening that she had spread a disease among them;
She has been threatening that she has spread an unknown disease to our children. She has been announcing to the public those she has slept with. It is a shame to us women
In Ms. Thiura’s defence, she said that young men had been taking advantage of her drunkenness to rape her.
A boy whom l knew very well because we used to drink together led his colleagues to rape me. Yet the community is accusing me of luring the rapists,
