Locals in Runyenjes, Embu County, are concerned after being misled into purchasing monkey meat.
Residents in Maranga village told Citizen tv that there had been a rush for cheap meat, which costs 80 shillings per kilogram.
According to preliminary investigations, a group of youngsters captured the monkey before slaughtering and slicing it into lusciously delectable slices.
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They went ahead and displayed the finished product, garnering many interested consumers.
A resident said that The monkeys were known in the village for attacking fields. They ruin their crops, resulting in low harvests.
However, several residents were upset with the lads for duping locals into purchasing the game meat.
Another one said that they will be praying for those boys because What they did was wrong, and Many people bought the meat thinking it was beef.
Others, on the other hand, made jokes about the event, depicting the youngsters as an entrepreneurial bunch who, like a double-edged blade, slaughtered two birds with one stone.
"I don't see any malice there." "The boys followed their curiosity, killed the animal, and made a few coins," a local claimed.
Residents urged the authorities to address the area's ongoing human-wildlife conflict.
"We want the government to erect a fence that will help control the animals from accessing our farms," one homeowner stated.
