Juja strange burial as family forced to bury banana stem

A banana stem being prayed at the grave after it was buried at Magomano village in Juja.The family of Chege Kamau,90, was forced to bury the banana stem after they were denied from collecting his body from Kenyatta University Mortuary and were instead slapped with a court injunction restraining them from burying him on the identified burial site at his Juja farm.PHOTO BY KAMAU MAICHUHIE

A family in Kiambu has buried a banana stem in place of their kin as efforts to get the body of the 90-year-old flopped.

It all started when family and friends of Chege Kamau, 90, went to collect his body at Kenyatta University Mortuary but were instead slapped with a court injunction restraining them from burying him on his Magomano farm in Juja.