Who has a beef with cattle in southern Nyanza and why?

Some of the cattle that were injured in Ndhiwa Sub-county on December 12, 2021. [James Omoro, Standard]

A bizarre crime wave has been sweeping across villages in southern Nyanza in the past two months with heartless people brutally killing livestock.

Armed with razor-sharp machetes and moving like ghosts under the cover of darkness, unknown people have been sneaking into homes, hacking cows either to death or leaving them with ugly gaping stab wounds.