Residents of Nyamagwa village in Keumbu division of Kisii county, have threatened to take legal action against Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) for failing to restrain primates from destroying their crops.
The village boards river Gucha and Chirichiro that has seen an increase of monkeys to have become a menace to local peasants who have lost their crops to the primates.
The small scale peasants who borders the duo rivers with tall gum trees said the rate at which the monkeys are destroying sweet potatoes,maize, beans among others, is disheartening and they are fearing they may not have anything worth to harvest at the end of the season.
Speaking to this writer on Friday at Keumbu, Janifer Nyareso and Albert Nyariacha lamented that the primates had caused huge loss and therefore demanded compensation from KWS.
"We are so much disapointed with the crawling move made by KWS. The monkeys have left us with noting to harvest at the end of the season. We are demanding for compensation from the wildlife body so that we can continue with our lives as we had planned," they jointly said.
If such destruction is not going to be stopped it will spell doom to the residents who depend on the crops for food.
The area chiefs led by Kerera location Kengara Mbute and his assistants Boniface Omwebu and Samwel Mogaka have appealed to the KWS to make arrangements to trans locate or restrain the monkeys from Kerera location adding that they have been forced to employ watchmen to scare away the menacing primates who sometimes turn violent to human intervention on the maize and sweetpotatoes crops.
When this journalist visited the area,children were sported with dogs in hide and seek pursuit for the primates.