Residents of Ekenyoru village, Kisii County on Monday caned a man who stripped in public for protesting that his hen was injured by a neighbour.

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Locals say that the man removed his clothes and threatened to chop off the head of his neighbour.

"We saw him rushing naked claiming that he was ready to die because his only hen had been injured by a neighbour, this prompted his neighbours to cane him mercilessly as they warned him never to repeat the same mistake," said Magdalene Omwoyo, a local.

Ms Omwoyo said that the man was later forced to put on his clothes and later taken to Omogonchoro police station.

At the station, he was told that he should be reporting on a daily basis as the elders study his behaviour in the village.

Ms Omwoyo said the man asked for forgiveness and promised that he will never repeat the same mistake. 

Contacted, the neighbour said that he never injured the hen willingly and was only chasing it away when the incident happened.