Outpouring of tributes and tears as Laboso laid to rest

Bomet Governor Joyce Laboso’s funeral service at Fort Ternan in Muhoroni, Kisumu County yesterday. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

The grieving family of the late Bomet Governor Joyce Cherono Laboso stood in the scorching afternoon sun and threw balls of earth to her grave as they bid goodbye to a leader whose death has united a country, hitherto divided by ethnic and sectarian politics.

At 2:33pm, Kenyans, led by President Uhuru Kenyatta, his Deputy William Ruto, Opposition leader Raila Odinga and a retinue of leaders let go of the heroine and handed her body to the family for burial.