Woman burns customer's clothes for refusing to pay bill
Drama ensued at the Isinet town of Kajiado on Sunday when a bar customer’s clothes were burnt for refusing to pay his beer bill.
The bar service manager, Pauline Mueni, told the Star on Monday she burnt her customer’s clothes because he refused to pay her Sh250 bill.
Mueni said the man has been drinking and leaving the bar through the back door without paying his bills.
After the customer realised that his clothes had been burnt, he sped across the market naked, causing a stampede among the women selling vegetables in the town.
Loitokitok police commander Kiprop arap Ruto confirmed the incident and said the police rushed to the club in the town after Maasai women threatened to beat Mueni.
“My officers had to act fast following the impasse. The Maasai women said they wanted to teach Mueni a lesson for embarrassing him by burning his clothes for only an Sh250 bill,” said Ruto.
Ruto said the situation was tense through Monday as the Maasai women demand justice for their man, who they claimed could not deserve the kind of treatment the bar manager displayed.
The women told the police that it is taboo for an elder Maasai to run around with his male organ explicitly exposed to women and young children.
Ruto said the women have demanded that the bar manager be moved out of town if they will not be allowed to “discipline” her in their own desired way.
One of the women demanding justice told the Star on the phone that if the police will allow them a chance to discipline Mueni, they will only give her a few strokes in the marketplace and leave her free.
“What she did was wrong, you cannot display the private parts of a respected elder and go scott-free after. The manhood of an elder cannot be displayed just like that for no good reason. Those of us who saw his manhood needs to be cleansed by slaughtering a goat,” a woman said.
The area police commander said if the old man will raise a complaint at a police station and demanded to press charges against the bar manager, they will arrest and charge her in a court of law.
“As at the moment, no one has recorded a statement regarding what happened at the bar yesterday,” the police commander said. BY THE STAR
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