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Inside burial of Igembe man with 10 wives, 200 grandchildren as number of mourners limited

Blessed with a large family, Zakayo Migwi’s(inset) burial could not conform to the guidelines put in place to curb the spread of Covid-19.

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In ordinary times, the burial of 99-year-old Zakayo Migwi would not have raised eyebrows. But regulations and protocols to curb the spread of the coronavirus meant that the polygamous nonagenarian’s burial was one of a kind.

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