Residents of Langas estate were on Wednesday left in shock after a 23-year-old man was busted with 51 stolen women underwears.
The man, Peter Mbugua is said to have placed the underwears below his mattress.
It is alleged that Mercy Kimani, his sister, leaked the information to the neighbours after they quarrelled.
"For around two weeks we have been losing our inner wears on the cloth line. Today morning one of our friends called Mercy came to us and revealed that her brother was the one responsible for the disappearance of our inner wears," Risper Chepchumba, a neighbour stated.
According to Mbugua's sister, the behaviour had begun getting out of hand as her brother kept on stealing the underwears from the cloth line every night. She was worried about him and decided to confront him when an argument that led to her revealing the secret, erupted.
"I had earlier on told him to stop doing it but he could not listen. Yesterday night when I confronted him he almost beat me up," the sister said.
She further revealed that Mbugua usually puts the stolen inner wears under his mattress and sometimes inside the pillow. Apparently, Mbugua had become obsessed with the behaviour.
When the neighbours ambushed him and searched his room, they indeed found 51 inner wears under his mattress. One lady identified 3 of them as hers.
"These three are mine, I lost them about a week ago. He will have to explain to us what he was planning to do with them," said the lady.
Mbugua, on the other hand, apologized to the neighbours and promised to turn on a new leaf. He said it was just an obsession and there was nothing big attached to the behaviour.
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