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‘I don’t regret inheriting my father’s morgue attendant job’

Nakuru County Mortuary Mortician Titus Kithiya Kiio (right) on September 5,2018. [Kipsang Joseph/Standard]

At the Nakuru County Hospital mortuary, amidst wailing mourners, 42-year-old Titus Kiio watches a corpse arrive, wrapped in white clothes and covered with flowers.

Kiio, fondly referred to as Tito, tends to another body in the freezer, creating space for the new arrival.

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