A two-month-old baby has died after falling into hot porridge while the mother was fighting with another woman over Ksh 1700 Chamaa money.
The incident occurred in Koduol 'B' village, South East sublocation of Homa Bay County's Ndhiwa constituency.
When Chamaa members arrived at his mother's residence to demand debt payment, the baby, identified as Sheldon Churchill, fell into the porridge pot.
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Sharon Auma, the child's mother, says that 20 Chamaa members walked into her house to collect a debt she owed them, but she didn't have the money, resulting in a violent altercation.
She said that she had borrowed Ksh.2500 from the Chamaa but had only repaid Ksh.800.
The group members continued to put undue pressure on her to repay the remaining Ksh.1700 or have her property auctioned off.
The conflict escalated when Chamaa members decided to seize Auma's 16 gorogoros of dry corn to settle the debt.
Auma reports that during that confrontation, two women pushed her, causing the baby she was carrying to tumble into the boiling porridge. She was attempting to prevent the gang members from entering her bedroom, which housed the dry corn.
the child died while being sent to Homa Bay County Referral Hospital.The body was transferred to the Manyatta Kobodo mortuary.
