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“You guys you are joking. You are saying there is no Covid?” Lillyan Mutinda began her moving exhortation to a handful of mourners at her mother’s Oasis Farm in Koko village, Kithimani in Yatta on Monday.
Lillyan, the head of health promotion at Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS), had spent the year fighting to keep Covid-19 at bay only for it to claim her mother, Alice Mbenya Kivuvani-Mutua.
Alice lay still in a beautiful casket, safely tucked in a hearse at a compound she had registered innumerable joys. Lillyan could not come to terms with the utter indifference and callousness she was witnessing.
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