Tens of villagers at Kagati village are watching in debrief every hour pass awaiting for the coming Sunday date when a suspected village thief will be cornered.
This is after one of them and a pub owner in the nearby shopping centre opted to seek the services of a witchcraft after his pub was broken into and items stolen.
As per the villagers, the process to tracking down the thief is manifested by a brown rooster that has been perching on the roof the pub for four days from last Saturday.
They said that the bird will in clockwise direction go round the roof of the pub where upon the lapse of the days given, the identity of the suspected will be known.
They said that conventional ways of curbing insecurity in the area have been unsuccessful claiming that security officials have done little to help them.
One of the villagers Stephen Mwangi claimed they have suffered a lot from a group of armed thugs that terrorizes them both by stealing and even killing.
"The owner of this pub has suffered setbacks to the level of nearly closing down his business after it was broken into seven times. We are tired of this," he said.
Mwangi claimed that the witch doctor who visited the place last weekend promised to get the results once the rooster goes round the roof of the house for one week.
But a retired assistant chief from the area Clement Wandeto said the he could agree or disagree with this exercise, saying that he has adopted a wait-and-see approach in regard the matter.
Tens of villagers are now milling around the scene on daily basis and not ready to disturb the peace of the bird which though behaving a normal way claimed that it has goes without feeding.
-WAMBUGU KANYI