Kenyan Woman Secretly Buries Husband in Dallas, Texas

Although it is courteous to inform the extended family and / or friend, it is not legally required of a wife to do so. I know we in the diaspora are expected to follow cultural norms in Kenya, but maybe the wife had practical reasons to do so. Also, we do not know if that was the husbands will. The wife is within her right to bury the husband as she wishes and the Kisii Community in Dallas should lay off her. The guy had lived in the US for more than 2 decades and maybe he did not have that much of a relationships with his kin back in Kenya

The wife is the next in kin.

Stop making false and responsible claims. How can this be called secret when there are people who attended the memorial - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuXzdhhKzdE ???
Those who did not attend simply have their own agenda.

THERE WAS NO SECRET BURIAL.

As much is this is very disturbing, ya'll realize that the wife was the immediate next of kin and according to the law has all rights to exercise her discretion right? That is why it's important to write a WILL or Advance Directives detailing exactly your desires and wishes. This is very important more particularly for those married to non-Kenyans; take end of life matters into your own hands and legally put everything in writing including how you would like your assets distributed.

Was the family in Kenya communicating with wife and children when arranging to airlift the body to Kenya? If not, that explain the wife's defensive action.

May not look good, however, she is legally able to do this. As Long as he did not die under suspicious circumstances, she is legally able to do this. Maybe saving expense or whatever reason, doesn't look good but its her right.

Terrible!!! What a selfish woman. God help us all.

Kenyans in US hate each other like nobody bull*hit

I beg to differ with the sentiments expressed here about the legality of a wife as the next of Kin and the decisions made about the final resting place of a deceased partner. Western laws or English culture not withstanding” A human being is not an animal.
The wife/Husband may keep all the wealth of a deceased because yes; they have all the legal authority to do so, but basic human decency demands that the Family be involved. Just so you know a parent or ones child/children should not be deprived off closer by the invocation of inherited foreign systems of Life.
You may cover all this with the” Legal right” language, but did your parents seek out legal rights to birth you raise you and Love you. Did your children seek out this legal rights to be born of you? They have an intrinsic natural right to know when you die, how and why, they be considered if not involved in deciding your final resting place.
Evidently any Husband/wife who rushes to “secretly surround by a few cheerleaders” those who don’t question any of your decision; to inter a spouse have something sinister to hide.

If she was legally married to the guy and the deceased listed her as next of kin on his will then hii makelele ni empty debes! or the noise makers have information that the story writer isnt aware e.g the money she got from life insurance etc.
The law is very clear if one is not next of kin on paper then no battle.

Nyinyi hamjui wakisii. Kwanza wakisii wa DFW! Utapata labda huyo jamaa alipokuwa hai, akihitaji usaidizi pahala fulani, hakuna mtu alijitokeza au wachache walihljitokeza lakini alipofariki everyone wants to make it their goddamn business on how he is burried. Ukue shida ya watu wengi ni ile pesa ilichangwa, reports say close to Ksh. 7,000,000. Hiyo ndio inauma wakisii wa DFW. Swali langu ni? Yawahusu nini? Yule bibi atakavyoweka kwa matumizi kama bibi haiwahusu ndewe wala sikio! That is kama uliwachangia ROHO SAFI! Hizi zingine ni kichinichini ya wakisii tu! Halafu ujue wakusii pia although they always want to portray a united front bado wana hii upuzi ya clanism. Ati hii clan ni ya wachawi, clan nyingine wezi, ingine wanawake sio wazuri. UPUZI! Upuzi mtupu! Na ndio huo huo upuzi unafanya weeeengi wanafika ng'ambo miaka mingi but because they can't focus on their goddamn life, kazi tu ni kusengenya na kupekua pekua na kutukana na kubagua na mengine ya kichini chini unapata watu wako stagnant as a community at large. Hiyo, ndio muone any change in your lives LAZIMA mtaacha. With the crazy life hapa majuu schedules, goals, aspirations, mtu sasa utapata saa wapi yakuunda vikao, vikao, vikao, isitoshe aibu kubwa ni hivi vikao ni wanaume wamejaa huko. Hata mabibi zenu hawawezi wakataza. Wanaume mtakaa namna gani kila uchao- nj vikao vya masengenyo. Mnasengenya sana kuliko wanawake. Iko siku mtaamka mjipate na matiti na madiaba hapo kwa boot na hizo vitu zenu zikuwa replaced. The best you can do is to support that widow, alienating her will bring you nothing and will not build any cohesion and understanding amongst the Kisiis in DFW or the rest of the country. Hiyo tabia ni ya aibu sana. Focus on your lives and your homes. Wachaneni na nyumba za watu. Tenda mema, nenda zako. Let Go and Let God.

these guys are spending so much on a corpse and the corpse isn't even worried of his final sendoff so hii story ya kufukua maiti manze muachane nayo mila mob ya bure.