Families refuse to bury kin in cemeteries despite land crisis

Close graves at the Asian quarter’s graveyard in Nyeri that has filled up with fresh ones being dug on top of older ones, July 12, 2018. [ Mose Sammy, Standard]

In March, Thomas Kimathi and his family shocked neighbours in Wiyumiiririe village in Nyeri when they announced plans to bury their father at the Baden Powell Cemetery.

Villagers thought of the idea as abominable. To them, it amounted to throwing away their beloved into the ‘bush’.