By SILAS APOLLOMore by this AuthorPolitician and multi-party crusader Kenneth Matiba, whose body will be cremated on Friday, joins a list of prominent Kenyans who have opted out of the traditional burial ceremonies. Some three years earlier, the primate had cremated the remains of his wife Mary Kuria. Busloads of villagers arrived in Nairobi, only to learn that his white wife had had the body cremated. His first wife, Ruth Florence Okuthe, cremated the 62-year-old on July 9, 2009 at Kariokor Cemetery, four days after his death. Wangari MaathaiThe Late Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai was cremated in 2011 in a largely private ceremony at the Kariokor Crematorium.

Source: Daily Nation April 23, 2018 10:18 UTC