Two days after the body of a young boy was found, people in the Nela village in Betula, Busia county, didn't know what to think. Anthony Opiyo, who was 10 years old, is thought to have died of starvation, and his mother hid his body. Having the body stay inside.
Locals say that the dead person's mother kept the body hidden in the house for a while before telling anyone.
The first sign that something was wrong would be that the door hadn't been opened in days, and Marcelina Apondi would be the one to notice it.
She says that when she couldn't open the door, she asked the chief elder in the area for help.
After finding that the front door was locked from the inside, the villagers forced their way in. "I tried to find the chief elder but couldn't find him anywhere."
A short time later, I came back with someone else. "When we opened the door, we saw a mother with the effects of what had happened.
starved to death while her dead son lay at her feet, "On West TV, Apondi said.
Some people in the village thought that Nebere was to blame for the situation she was in because she was usually quiet and didn't talk much.
"We get along great with the woman, but her one flaw is that she doesn't know how to talk to other people, so she can't talk to them." A respected village elder named Sylvester Pamba said, "She felt like she had no one she could talk to about her problems." She rented out her whole 4-acre plot to sugarcane farmers, and now she has nowhere to grow the food she needs to stay alive. The older people in the town said that the villagers were selfish because they didn't want to adopt socialism. Shadrack Masinde, who is a representative for the Marachi Central ward, says that Opiyo's death could have been prevented if the community had been more united and cared for each other.