Residents of Angalo village of Homa Bay Town constituency are living in fear after a group of marauding hippos invaded their farms in the wee hours of the night wreaking havoc to thier crops.
The residents expressed fears that the unknown number of hippos which emerge from Lake Victoria headed straight to their farms to feed on the crops and that attempts to wade them away turned futile.
Witnesses said decried that the wild animal turned hostile as villagers desperately attempted to keep them at bay from their farms forcing them to give in.
Simon Ogoma a villager at the scene told KNA that the wild animals were impoverishing them as the farms were their main source of livelihood.
