[Courtesy]The family of former Kenya Ports Authority employee, James Oyugi, who died of Covid-19 have lost a bid to exhume his body to give him a decent burial as they had envisioned. High Court sitting in Siaya dismissed their request to have the body exhumed, to allow for a biopsy and autopsy before a decent burial is conducted. The body was wrapped in a body bag and buried at his home in Kamalungi village, Ukwala in Ugenya Sub-county at 2am under the watchful eyes of police and public health officers. But yesterday Judge Roseline Aburili ruled that in the interest of public health or public good, there would be no exhumation of the body, a biopsy and autopsy. She further noted that this was a perfect case where precautionary principles should be applied in the interest of public health to protect the public good.

Source: Standard Digital June 15, 2020 13:56 UTC