Late Kibra MP Ken Okoth and late Bomet Governor Joyce Laboso passed away from cancer on Friday last week and Monday this week respectively.
Their funeral arrangements are underway. Laboso is set to be buried on Saturday in Koru home, Kisumu County, while Okoth's burial date has not yet been revealed.
Luo elders have now come out to state that their culture states that the two should be buried traditionally at their parent's home.
Elder Justus Oliech maintained that everyone from the Luo Community must be buried according to their traditions.
“I am not privy to their burial arrangements, but there are laid down procedures which are universal and binding to everyone,” he said as quoted by Standard.
Mr Oliech stated a step by step guide on how a woman and a man are buried in the Luo land.
According to Oliech, a woman who had been married, should spend her last night at her husband's place before burial.
A woman is buried on the left side of her husbands house with her head facing the gate, while a man is buried on the right side of his house with his head facing the gate too.
For an unmarried man and woman, things are different. An unmarried man is buried next to his mother's house while an unmarried woman is buried at the main gate.
Oliech further noted that a man is buried at 4pm while a woman is buried at noon or few minutes past noon.
It is the widower who drops the first sand when burying her late wife while for a man, it is his father who drops the first sand into his grave.
A twig/flower is then planted on their grave, which is left to wither with time. This shows the life of that person who has died.
After their burial, relatives stay around for three days.