Wife wins 10-year battle to bury her female 'husband'

Mukethe Wanza, 59, displays pictures of her late 'husband' Alice Wanza at their Kalama village home in Machakos County. Wanza's body has been at Machakos Level Five Hospital mortuary since 2008. [Philip Muasya]

For 10 years, Mukethe Wanza has been yearning to bury her late 'husband' whose body has been lying at Machakos Level Five Hospital mortuary.

The decade-long delay was occasioned by a protracted court case, after Mukethe obtained a court order, barring her brother-in-law from burying the deceased in his farm contrary to her wishes. That was in December 2008.