The notices are more readable and respectful of the dead. It was reader Githuku Mungai who posed the question: Does NMG have a policy of “not correcting” errors in death and funeral announcements?” The question was consequential. First, she said, they stopped accepting handwritten announcements, thus eliminating the possibility of introducing errors while preparing the notices for print. There can be a lot of back and forth consultations as most announcements are written under the authority of funeral committees. The death announcements are now generally clean and readable.

Source: Daily Nation April 18, 2019 18:33 UTC