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Okoth family ditches plan to bury banana trunk after MP’s cremation

ODM National chairman John Mbadi and Kabondo Kasipul MP Eve Obara console the late Kibra MP Ken Okoth’s mother Angelina Ajwang' at her home in Kabondo Kasipul Constituency on August 5, 2019. [James Omoro, Standard]

Family of the late Kibra MP Ken Okoth has shelved earlier plans to bury a banana trunk in honour of their son.

The revelations, made by ODM National Chairman John Mbadi, who also chaired a select committee on Okoth’s send-off, has left residents of Ogenga village in Kabondo Kasipul Constituency with a sour mouth.

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