There was drama over the weekend at Nakuru South Cemetery in Kivumbini, after a family that had earlier disagreed on burying their kin at the cemetery exhumed the body.
This comes after Zipporah Kayumbi, the firstborn in the family of Ezna Mbone who died on March 11, obtained a court order to allow her to exhume her mother’s body and rebury it.
She revealed that their mother succumbed to chest complications and one of their uncles who lives in Kitale agreed to allocate them space on his farm to bury her.
Zipporah’s father, Paul Muhati, however, is said to have turned down the offer by his brother and insisted that he would bury her at the public cemetery.
This did not go down well with the children who maintained that their mother’s wish was to be buried in Western Kenya.
Zipporah said that before her mother's death, the siblings had already started the process of acquiring land in Kiminini where the family that has been living at Manyani Estate in Nakuru would relocate to.
“Before her death, we had already started the process of acquiring land in Kiminini where our family would relocate to from Manyani,” said Zipporah.
Their father is said to have gone ahead and organised his wife’s burial with the assistance of his two daughters who live in Nakuru.
This was despite the seller of the land in Kiminini agreeing to have her buried on the piece of land days to the burial.
With the assistance of her maternal relatives, Zipporah obtained a court order and was allowed to have her mother laid to rest at the place of their choice a month after the burial.
The incident attracted a huge crowd which gathered at the Nakuru South Cemetery.