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Kenyan pastors ‘doing business with the dead’ at funerals

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  • We take you through the weird side of the men of God at burials, which makes them look like anything but comforters

Sometime back a man in Ebushiloli Mwilonje-Vihiga County, became a ‘pastor’ at his son’s burial because he could not raise the Sh5,000 church fee needed to have the men of the cloth preside over the ceremony.

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