A burial site row between the family of former Ugenya MP the late Arch Bishop Stephen Ondiek and another family has taken a controversial turn.
This is after the family of the late Beatrice Atieno who was Ondiek's daughter-in-law, got a court order and buried her remains at Ondiek family's cemetery at the former Assistant Cabinet Minister's home in Siaya County.
This, however, came days after the bishop's widow Concilia Ondiek obtained a court order preventing Atieno's family; Grace Achieng (mother) and Wycliffe Otieno (brother) from burying her demains at the site.
However, the ruling was quashed by Siaya Principal Magistrate James Ong'ondo, who on Monday allowed the two to collect the body from the morgue and lay it to rest at the very same site
But according to Mr Paul Ondiek, the Bishop's son and Concilia's stepson, the deceased was legally married to his brother Solomon Kobare who lives in the United States, poking holes into his mother's opposition.
“My brother who lives in the US is Beatrice’s legal husband, having married and paid her dowry under the Luo customary laws," he said, adding that Ms Concilia has no moral authority to speak on the matter.
But according to Concilia who now wants to move to court against the burial, Beatrice was married by someone else, one Mr Richard Kobare.
"That is an abomination and I will be moving to court to seek exhumation orders. The lady (Beatrice Otieno) was married elsewhere and is survived by a husband and two children aged 18 and 16," she was quoted by the Nation.
Ugenya OCPD Willy Simba said that he was not notified about the controversial burial.