Bodies of late Evelyn Waithera – who was a lecturer at KMTC – and her parents are set to be cremated as family feud stopped their burial.
Evelyn Waithera, 32, perished alongside her sister Rhoda Njeri, 40, parents William Kamau, 77, Jane Njoki, 69, in a horrid November 1st accident at Kamirithu area in Limuru along Nairobi-Nakuru highway.
The late Evelyn Waithera was a lecturer at Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC) – Karen Campus, Nairobi.
The late KMTC lecturer and her parents were to be buried on November 10th but the burial was stopped because of a land tussle between family members.
Evelyn Waithera’s sister Rhoda Njeri had earlier been buried at her husband’s rural home on November 8th.
William Kamau’s stepmother and her children obtained restraining order stopping the bodies of the three to be buried in a disputed land at their ancestral four-acre farm in Gaturi, Murang’a county.
Murang’a Principal Magistrate Edwin Nyaga issued the order restraining Kamau’s immediate family from interring the three bodies on the farm.
The order was served to Kamau’s first wife, Eunice Wanjiku, and his sons, Antony Irungu, Muturi Kamau a Maina Kamau.
The order was given on the strength of an ongoing succession dispute in a Nairobi court pitting the Kamau’s against their stepmother. The family has been entangled in a land dispute since 2006.
The order was issued on November 5th but Kamau’s immediate family said they only became aware of them on November 9th and had not been officially served with the same.
Villagers in Murang’a prepared the graves of the three as the family insisted it had not received any order from the court stopping the burial.
However, the family was forced to return the three bodies to the mortuary after police stopped them from burying their kin on the dispute parcel of land.
The family has since resorted to cremating the three bodies upon realization that the case could drag in court indefinitely while mortuary charges continue to increase.
According to the report given by one of the family members of the deceased who opted to remain anonymous, the family had come to an agreement that they cremate the bodies of the KMTC lecturer and her parents in order to reduce the tension between two families as they proceed with their court battle over the land.
