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Court orders man’s remains be buried as per Luo laws

By WILLIS OKETCH | Nov. 17, 2013

By WILLIS OKETCH

A magistrate in Mombasa cited jurisprudence from the 1987 Silvanus Melea Otieno burial saga to make a ruling that any ethnic Luo who dies without a will should be buried according to Luo customary law.

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