Partner inheritance has been treated among the legacies out-of past backward African culture but given that ADIPO SIDANG’ contends, was we tossing the little one toward bathwater?
Ken Odhiambo Okoth up against the Luo people elicited public discussion reminiscent of the brand new S
The cremation of your own remains from Kibra MP Hon. Yards Otieno instance regarding late 80s, where widow, Wambui Otieno battled in courtroom which have Umira Kager clan more in which in order to bury the body of one’s then well-known lawyer. Wambui got planned to bury their unique husband at the the Top Matasia household because the lawyer’s clan insisted he’d to be tucked inside the ancestral family in line with Luo community. New wants of clan sent the afternoon.
Whereas the newest cremation of your Hon. Okoth’s remains try competitive, it will be the pronouncement by the a splinter band of brand new Luo Council regarding Elders contributed by the Nyandigo Ongadi you to definitely received social opprobrium and you may approbation almost within the equal scale. These types of parents necessary this new inheritance out of Okoth’s widow, Monica Okoth, because of the one of the later legislator’s brothers in line with Luo people.