How leaders’ best kept secrets are laid bare in death

Pallbearers carry the casket bearing the remains of Kibra MP Ken Okoth during the funeral service at Moi Girls in Nairobi on Thursday. [David Njaaga, Standard]

In life, they are venerated as saints. Their lives are spotlessly clean, or so their loved ones assume.

However, the moment the high and mighty breath their last, their deathly silence inspire scandals and controversies which run for decades as millions of shillings go up in smoke in the ensuing cat fights.