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Luo customs: Day varsity don was lectured in court

Lawyer John Khaminwa. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

At exactly five minutes past nine on February 5, 1987, Justice Samuel Bosire walked into the courtroom to find Prof Henry Odera Oruka on the witness stand.

The professor of philosophy at the University of Nairobi had been called as expert witness to offer philosophic and juridical basis of Luo customs in the matter of burial place for prominent lawyer Silvano Meleo Otieno.

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