A somber mood has engulfed residents of Kabukara village in Sirisia constituency Bungoma county after three members of one family died as a result of one hundred and fifty shillings.
According to neighbors and residents, the middle aged man killed his wife in cold blood on Wednesday after she refused to give him one hundred shillings.
It's alleged that the wife refused to give him the money, which she intended to use to buy medicine for his sick grandmother.
A neighbor Rose Simiyu told journalists that the woman had been loaned the cash by her fellow women in their local women's self group before the husband began to demand for the money.
''The wife completely refused to give him the money saying that he will only go and buy alcohol with it,'' she said.
The two exchanged in a quarrel, before the man who is said to have been drunk at the time of the incident snatched her the money, then beat her up before stabbing her several times on the breasts and stomach.
The woman died on the spot. Irate neighbors stormed the homestead and stoned the man to death. His brother who tried to come with a panga to rescue his brother was also beaten to death by the mob.
Police have taken the three bodies to the Bungoma referral hospital morgue.
Chair of Maendeleo ya wanawake in Sirisia sub county Bilha Nakhungu condemned the incident and asked men to respect their wives.
''We want our men to have respect to their wives and stop these incidents we have seen here and settle disputes in an amicable way,'' she said.
Sirisia MP John Waluke who visited the homestead condemned the incident. The MP blamed excessive consumption of alcohol among the youths and married men for rampant deaths and marriage breakages in the area.
''This is very sad incident since most of my electorates whom I expected to vote for me in the coming polls have died a lot because of these cheap sachet liquor that comes from neighboring town in Uganda".
He asked the Bungoma County Commissioner Joshua Chepchieng to crack the whip on the rampant use of illicit alcohol in the area.
The legislature said that most of the alcohol brought through the border from Uganda is being sold everywhere in houses and is used by politicians to also cause havoc in rallies and funerals.
The politician said that its very sad to loose three members of one family because of a family dispute that could have been resolved peacefully.
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