For Sh135,000.
The trio of suspected conmen had convinced the mason that they could restrain the movements of his wife whom he suspected of having an extra-marital affair.
During the arrest, police recovered the woman’s panties that had been locked in a water jerrycan.
Police said the man approached the witchdoctors last week. He promised to solve the infidelity problem for a fee.
Elder Evans Mwai said that the witchdoctors demanded Sh135,000, the woman’s underpants, her hair and other belongings that they said would make sure she stopped her wayward ways.
“Instead, things became worse and the man, on advice from his friends, reported the matter to police, leading to the arrest of the suspects,” he said.
Naivasha OCPD Samuel confirmed the case adding that the three would be charged in court on Tuesday with various charges, including obtaining money through false pretences.
“The three had promised that they would make sure that the woman in question stopped straying but they failed to deliver,” he said.
Meanwhile, a postmortem conducted on the body of a 12-year-old boy who was found dead in Mai Mahiu Naivasha has indicated that he was smothered to death.
The postmortem further indicated that the Class 5 pupil who had been missing for two days was sodomised by the killer before his body was dumped in a maize plantation.
This came as DCIO officers from Naivasha heightened their investigations into the case that has left residents frightened and angry.
On Sunday last week, the body of the minor from Karima Primary school was found dumped on a farm after two days of searching.
The minor who was living with his father went missing on Friday on his way from school.
Government pathologist Dr Titus Ngulungu said the minor was sexually abused before he was fatally suffocated.
The OCPD said that though no arrest had been made, investigating officers had crucial leads:
Witch-craft is against the law. The Kenya Penal Code states:
"Any person who holds himself out as a witchdoctor able to cause fear, annoyance or injury to another in mind, person or property, or who pretends to exercise any kind of supernatural power, witchcraft, sorcery or enchantment calculated to cause such fear, annoyance or injury, shall be guilty of an offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years."
Witchcraft with intent to injure is liable to 10 years behind bars.
The law, dating from colonial times, is elaborate.
(Edited by V. Graham)
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