Emotions Ran High As Slain Varsity Student Sharon Otieno's 7-Month-Old Unborn Baby is Buried
The seven-month-old unborn baby of slain Rongo University student Sharon Otieno was buried in Magare Village, Homa Bay County on Friday evening after a six-hour delay.
The funeral ceremony was delayed after the morgue where the foetus was being preserved withheld the remains demanding the family presents a burial permit. The family failed to secure a burial permit in time.
Luo community traditions require that children be buried before noon but the hitch forced them to break this norm. Sharon's mother Melida Auma said the permit was to be processed at Rachuonyo District Hospital mortuary where postmortem examination was done.
The baby’s body was released to the family at 4pm after doctors from Rachuonyo Level 4 Hospital mortuary sent the permit to morgue operators through WhatsApp.
Emotions ran high during the burial ceremony presided over by Anglican Church of Kenya (ACK) Reverend Samuel Allan. The cleric called on members of the public to avoid making insensitive statements over the murder of the 26-year-old student.
Sharon’s family maintains it will not bury their daughter until those who killed her are arrested and prosecuted.
The lifeless body of Sharon was found near Kodera Forest in Homa Bay two days after she was abducted from a hotel in Rongo town about two weeks ago.
An autopsy report revealed that she died from excessive bleeding after she was stabbed eight times in the stomach, neck and back.
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"...Samuel Allan, Huna…
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"...Samuel Allan, Huna majina ya Kiafrika? Kwa nini unatumia majina ya "kiutumwa na kikoloni" kujitambulisha? Tulipata uhuru miaka 55 iliyopita. Kwa nini ungali ukitumia majina yanayowatukana mababu zetu? Amka kumekucha ndugu!
Kama huna majina ya Kiafrika, nitakupa majina mawili bure bila kukulipisha hata senti moja.
@Imara patia huyo mtu majina…
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Ndugu @Mugikuyu. Tuna majina ya kutosha Kenya. Kila tifa dogo lina majina yao. Majina ni sehemu ya historia yetu ambayo hatuhitaji kuipoteza. Sioni kwa nini tukope majina kama vile Uhuru na Ruto wamekopa pesa kutoka Uchina!
Kusema kweli, tumekuwa "aguruki - wenda wazimu." Najiuliza, imekuwakuwaje hata majina yetu tunayachukia?
Hebu Mugikuyu tazama:
`1. Tunachukia dini zetu
2. Majina yetu
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11. AKILI yetu, mpaka tuaacha kufikiria jambo lolote ambalo laweza kutufaa kwenye siku za usoni.
SULUHISHO:
Ni lazima tuwachague viongozi wote wapya na kumwambia Ruto aache kuota ndoto zake za kuwa kiongozi wa nchi ya Kenya 2022.
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