Officials in western Kenya have exhumed the body of a local man to strip him of the uniform he was buried in, according to reports.<\/p>\n
Martin Shikuku Alukoye was buried in his full Kakamega County Youth S"},"modified":"2019-08-14T12:33:46","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T12:33:46","slug":"kenya-officials-exhume-mans-body-to-retrieve-uniform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/14\/kenya-officials-exhume-mans-body-to-retrieve-uniform\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya officials exhume man’s body to retrieve uniform"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Officials in western Kenya have exhumed the body of a local man to strip him of the uniform he was buried in, according to reports.<\/p>\n
Martin Shikuku Alukoye was buried in his full Kakamega County Youth Service uniform after drowning this month.<\/p>\n
Local officials then exhumed the body to retrieve the uniform, despite opposition from his family.<\/p>\n
Mr Alukoye\u2019s uncle said they had violated \u201cthe laws of the land and the laws of our forefathers\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had fully involved the county government in the burial arrangements and they never resisted our proposal to bury [him] in his work regalia,\u201d Francis Mutamba said, according to the Daily Nation newspaper.<\/p>\n
The family said they had opposed requests from officials to retrieve the uniform following the 31-year-old\u2019s burial, but that officials then did so without their consent or a court order.<\/p>\n
The assistant chief of the Ituti area, Daniel Namayi, condemned the exhumation as he threatened legal action against the officers.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce a body has been buried, it requires anyone with a complaint to get a court order in order to exhume it. The county administrators have gone against the law in recovering [the] clothing,\u201d he told the Daily Nation.<\/p>\n
Elders of the Abang\u2019onya clan have also criticised the county officials for the exhumation, which they view as being taboo.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had decided to bury our son at night in line with culture which dictates that a person who died by drowning should not be buried while the sun is shining. But the county officers have surprised us when they decided to exhume the body to recover their regalia,\u201d Mr Mutamba said.<\/p>\n
The body was dressed in a new set of clothes and re-buried earlier this week after elders performed rituals to cleanse the family.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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