The hurried and undignified burial in the wee hours of Sunday morning of a KPA employee suspected to have succumbed to Covid-19 has raised a storm at the Mombasa Port. Oyugi’s body was interred at around 3 am, breaking all cultural norms of the Luo community. On Monday, Dock Workers Union secretary general Simon Sang said the burial was a violation of Oyugi’s and his family’s human rights. BBC journalist Ferdinand Omondi said the burial itself, by the three mortuary attendants in white ghoulish hazmat suits, was unhealthy and unsafe, and humiliated Oyugi’s family. Yet there are certain things that the management is not enforcing which expose workers,” said Sang.

Source: The Star April 13, 2020 12:56 UTC