Residents of Mkaomoto village in Malindi district woke up to find a goat had given birth to a kid with human features. The goat’s kid has a bald head, eyes, mouth and nose similar to a human. Superstitious villagers have started talk it could be a ghost. Hundreds of residents rushed to the home of Joseph Baya at 7am to see strange creature after word spread.
Raphael Sunday, the owners of the goat which delivered the infant, said it began labour pains at 2am. He said they were forced to call for help from two veterinary officers to help the goat. He said the first veterinary officer failed prompting them to call a second who help the goat deliver safely. “To our surprise, the infant had features of a human being, its head was so big and completely resembled a real person,” he said. He said the mother survived, but the young goat died only hours later.
The incident raised mixed reactions from the residents some of who suspected a man could have had intercourse with the goat.”We have never seen such a creature, this is so strange someone could have slept with the goat,” said a curious onlookers. Elderly Baya, the head of the family, said the goat had a difficult labour.
Ganda chief Bartholomew Kitunga said he had seen the goat and dismissed the claims that they could be human features. He said such incidences were deformities during the formation of the goat in the womb and asked residents not to worry.”Residents should stop fearing that it could be ghosts or strange things, this might be normal deformities that happen even to human beings and there is no cause for worry,” he said. The residents later buried it at a small grave near the home even as people kept on flocking to witness the ‘human goat’.
