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How Kenyans bury billions

Daniel Kiili puts a cross in a chopper at Kenyatta University grounds. The chopper airlifted Muriuki Karitho’s body to Meru. Mr Muriuki was a long-serving chief and tycoon in Meru. PHOTO: GEORGE NJUNGE/STANDARD

NAIROBI: People die. And if they are not cremated, they have to be buried.

It is that reality of burials, the ritual of funerals and the attendant final rites for the deceased that has spawned a multi-billion-shilling industry.

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