A Kakamega man is believed to have killed his 89-year-old grandmother and set her house on fire over a tiff occasioned by the elderly cash stipend.
The woman is reported to have died in a fire that razed down her home in Eshitimba Village, Khusiku sub-location in Khwisero sub-county.
The incident happened Monday night.
Mary Okiso, aged 70 and the first-born daughter, said the late was killed after she refused to give the suspect money.
Okiso said the suspect thought the grandmother had been given money after he saw the village elder visiting her to inform her that the government had released cash to be paid to her.
The suspected grandson, aged 40 and believed to be a drug addict, is accused of attacking the elderly woman after she declined to give the money he had demanded.
It is after she declined his request that the suspect became angry and destroyed the banana plantation and other crops in the area.
Neighbours are reported to have weighed in and contained him. He was locked in his house.
It is not clear how he escaped the house and ended up burning the grandmother in her house.
Khwisero sub-county police commander Samuel Kogo said they are in the custody of the suspect.
He said they rescued him from public lynching after residents tried to attack him at Ebukambuli market.
