Hippo at Lake Victoria. [Photo/absoluteafrica.com]The national government through Kenya Wild Life Service (KWS) has been requested by the residents of Nyakondo, Tagache, and Kikongo beaches in Nyatike sub-county to compensate them after hippopotamus caused death and destruction to their crops.
The residents led by Muhuru Bay member of the county assembly, Evron Maira said that hippos have recently killed two people and left several others maimed.
The ward representative expressed fear that hippos may kill many more people if immediate action from KWS is not realised.
“The latest causality being one month ago when the animals killed a fisherman on the shores of Nyakondo beach,” he said.
Another resident, Esther Achieng, a widow whose husband, Ezra Odondi was killed by the marauding animals last month told the press that her
four children no longer go to school because she cannot provide for them.
The residents now want the Kenya Wildlife Services to come to their rescue and compensate them for the damage to the crops and the numerous deaths that they have caused to them.