In the middle of Lake Victoria, one kilometre off the Usenge Beach in Siaya County stands a rather mysterious and isolated island which possesses some unexplained spirits.
Named Sirigombe Island, the island remains unoccupied, with people living around it claiming that it has repeatedly been witnessed burning, yet no one lives there, keeping them away.
In the earlier days, shepherds would take their animals there and stay for years, thanks to the fact that there are no wild animals that can attack their livestock in the Island.
At the same time, fishermen adore it since there are lots of fish around it, making it one of the best places to cast nets around that area of the great Nam Lolwe.
“We have had instances where fire would mysteriously light up in the island and raze the vegetation yet people don’t live here,” Isaiah Onyango, a guide, told the Saturday Standard.
However, the interesting bit is that in 1953, the Island alongside Mageta Island were identified by the British colonialists as the best places to detain political detainees.
Thanks to their isolation in the middle of the water, they were used to hold about 2,000 Kenyans who were pushing for independence, including the late Waruru Kanja.
He said that the group was taken to the islands on boats before being returned to the mainland to work.“The government shipped off the political detainees to the island to rehabilitate them by making them work hard in a strange land where they were linguistically and culturally isolated,” said Onyango.