PHOTO | FILEA Kakamega court has ordered that a woman’s body be exhumed after her five daughters won a legal battle against their elder sibling in a dispute over their mother’s burial. The court on Thursday ruled that the body of Ms Lihavi be exhumed for reburial at Makhaya Village in Sigalagala, where the five sisters had argued that customs and traditions of the Bamakhaya clan demanded she be interred. Ms Lihavin died while receiving treatment at Nairobi West Hospital and was buried by Ms Khatoro without the knowledge of her other daughters and relatives. Mr Ochieng ordered the Nandi County Public Health Officer to supervise the exhumation. The magistrate said: “I order the body of Lihavi be handed to the plaintiffs for an appropriate burial next to her husband.”

Source: Daily Nation August 25, 2017 05:37 UTC