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Freedom fighter with nowhere to be buried as land goes to hospital

Ex-freedom fighter Waigwa Muriuki during the interview at his home in Ngaaini colonial village in Mathira constituency, Nyeri county on October 13, 2022. [File, Standard]

The relatives of a freedom fighter have been forced to look for alternative land to bury their family matriarch after the State denied them a burial permit at her colonial village where she has lived all her life.

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