Remains of 100 year old man in Kilifi, exhumed 14 years later and reburied

Villagers traditional dance around the coffin that contains the remains of the late Ndoro Menza Sadi on Saturday, 16th August, 2014 at Tunya Nguo village in Vitengeni of Kilifi County. Residents exhumed the grave that was used to bury the late Ndoro Menza Sadi in 1999 and the remains reburied after the late is said to have appeared in dreams to his close family members protesting that he was indecently buried.[PHOTO:JOSEPH MASHA/ STANDARD]

KILIFI COUNTY: The body of Ndoro Menza Sadi who died in Tinya Nguo village in Vitengeni of Kilifi county aged 100 years old in 1999 has been exhumed to fulfil an ancient cultural ritual and reburied in a coffin in the same grave.

Ndoro's family claim they did this to avert a curse for performing a faulty ritual adding that the late old man has been speaking to them through dreams or nightmares in the dead of the night demanding to be accorded the right burial, in a coffin.