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Judge defies succession customs, grants burial wish to second wife's family
The court said the first family’s long alienation from the elderly man, contrasted with the second family’s care for him in his final years, spoke volumes about where his attachments lay.
In a landmark decision that highlights the evolving nature of succession and family law in Kenya, a High Court judge has ruled that a 90-year-old man, Mburu Kinani, will be buried on his farm in Gilgil, Nakuru County, next to his second wife.
The ruling overturns an earlier decision by a lower court and defies a customary burial practice of the Agikuyu community that dictates a man be buried at his ancestral and first wife’s home.
