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Court directs family to relocate graves for a road’s construction

Nduku Mausu points to her husband Mausu Ngulu’s grave at her Kyanika village, Kitui County.

A family in Kitui is in shock after a court directed it to exhume and relocate six bodies buried in its homestead to pave way for tarmacking of the Kibwezi-Mutomo-Kitui-Kabati-Migwani road.

Mutomo Senior Principal Magistrate ZJ Nyakundi issued orders to an 89-year-old widow in the family to relocate the six bodies from the Nzambani/Kyanika/513 parcel in Kyanika location in Chuluni, Kitui East Constituency.

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