Peter Musyoka passion healing snake bites is beyond making huge profits

By Lilian Aluanga-Delvaux

Two goats. That’s what it took to save the life of a young man in Nduvani, Kitui County, 12 years ago. It was a hot afternoon and Augustus Mbila, 26, was walking home after a day’s work on the farm. As he weaved his way through the dense shrubbery he felt what he thought was a thorn prick him just above his left ankle. But as Mbila bent to check his leg he saw a long, brown snake slither away. He was horrified to realise the ‘prick’ was the bite from a black mamba, or nguua, as it is known in the local Kamba dialect.