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Drama as family demands dowry from in-laws before releasing body

“I was astonished when my in-laws said I cannot bury my wife, unless I pay the cows and the money they are demanding as dowry"

Drama ensued at Kakamega County Referral Mortuary on Tuesday after the family of the deceased demanded to be paid outstanding dowry before the body could be taken by the in-laws for burial.

The family of the late Beatrice Ngoya, which hails from Tangwa village in Luanda, blocked Josphat Ndeda’s family from taking the body of the late.

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