By DICKENS WESONGA More by this AuthorPopular Benga musician Eric Omondi Odit commonly known as Omondi Long Lilo will be laid to rest Friday at his Gombe home in Bondo, after the county government declined the family’s request to bury him next Wednesday. The county government insisted that Long Lilo must be buried on Friday and waived the mortuary bill while Governor Cornell Rasanga gave the family Sh30,000 to buy a coffin. The untimely death of the 37-year-old Benga musician threw the Kenyan entertainment industry and his Gombe village into mourning early this week. His wife Goretty Awino Omondi said the musician breathed his last at 4.30am on Tuesday. Long Lilo shot to the limelight in 2007 after a breakup with king of Benga Osito Kale, Odhiambo Tusker and Ogina Koko.

Source: Daily Nation June 18, 2020 12:34 UTC