By NDUNGU GACHANEMore by this AuthorAnxiety has gripped residents of Murang’a County following reports that fallen politician and multi-party crusader Kenneth Matiba will be cremated in Nairobi later this week. NO FANFAREContacted, Matiba’s daughter Ivy declined to comment on the matter, saying she was not the family spokesperson. “Kindly, I am not the family spokesperson so I cannot comment, but I will get the spokesperson to comment on the issue,” she told the Sunday Nation. The politician was way back in January 1994 quoted in a local daily as expressing his wish to be cremated instead of being buried with pomp and fanfare. SEND-OFFMr Kariuki Kimani, a villager, said that it was the wish of many Kiharu residents that Mr Matiba is buried there.

Source: Daily Nation April 21, 2018 21:33 UTC