The choppers and drone were a surprise, not Jacob Juma's other wives or children

Family and mourners watch as Jacob Juma was laid to rest      Photo:Benjamin Sakwa/Standard

The sleepy village of Nabuto in Bungoma was brought to life by Juma’s cortège and burial. One of the speakers at the ceremony admitted that, “We have never seen a funeral like this one.”

Two hired choppers hovered in the skies as the body was taken round for public viewing in an expensive casket.