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It is a life of fish, ‘stewed’ sex and witchdoctors in Siaya beaches

A view of Mageta Island.                     PHOTO/ISAIAH GWENGI.

Drunk fishermen don’t bother with protection. Money is good for lodging owners, but the cost of maintaining broken beds has seen them erecting concrete slabs. Then there are witchdoctors who control fishing and beach elections.

Welcome to Mageta Island,  a former colonial detention camp in Siaya County, where a recent battle of wits between a fisherman and a witchdoctor left a family in shock after their dinner miraculously disappeared as they prayed.

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