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We don’t store bodies in warehouses at Industrial Area- Lee Funeral Home

 Lee Funeral Home

Over the years, the Lee Funeral Home in Nairobi has been the choice morgue for high-profile Kenyans.

The recent deaths of the late Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Nkaissery, Senator GG Kariuki, former powerful Cabinet minister Nicholas Biwott and Ambassador Bethwel Kiplagat, made the Lee Funeral Home the point of call as it did when prominent businessman Jacob Juma was assassinated last year.

Unlike other funeral homes and hospital morgues where the bereaved can view the bodies of their departed during normal working hours, the same is not the case with Lee Funeral Home.

At Lee, one needs an appointment “to accord each family a conducive atmosphere to mourn their relatives in privacy. Again, spacing is necessary to avoid crowded situations,” explains Ezra Olack, the chair of Funeral Services Association of Kenya (FUSACK) and who also works at Lee Funeral Home.

This need for an appointment to stagger scheduled visits has over the years fuelled rumours that bodies taken to the Lee Funeral Home are not preserved there, but at a warehouse in Nairobi’s Industrial Area and hence the appointments to retrieve and transport them to their premises along Argwings Kodhek Road.

Many city residents think bodies are transported at night to the warehouse then returned to the funeral home before the break of dawn.

Flora Osokaise, a manager at Lee Funeral Home told The Nairobian that the rumour “is a lie that originated from a certain embassy some years back. We don’t have a warehouse in Industrial Area. Let those peddling the rumours show us the location of the said warehouse.”

Lee Funeral Home also offers global repatriation of bodies in and out of Kenya and the International Air Transport Association (IATA) rules stipulate that bodies on transit be stored at the nearest morgue.

Olack explained that many clearing and forwarding firms prefer storing their human cargoes at the Lee Funeral Home from where they’re taken to the airport and this aspect of its practice wrongly linked the home to clandestine storage of bodies in Industrial Area as the route to the airport is off the Industrial Area.

“Usually, there is a lot of movement along Mombasa Road and Jogoo Road, with vehicles dropping and picking bodies at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. People assume bodies are being taken to or from the alleged warehouse,” says Olack who doubles as the vice president of Africa Funeral Services Association.

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