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Family holds emotional memorial service as body of son is detained at Gertrude's Hospital

Family of the late Brian Kimani, 13, who died from cancer of the blood (Leukemia) at Gertude's Hospital in Nairobi. Stephen Njoroge (father), Stephen Kinuthia (son) and Maryanne Wanjiku (mother) at ACK St Stephen's Gatukira, Ndenderu, Kiambu, during his memorial service, on Wednesday, March 11, 2020. [David Njaaga, Standard]

A forbidding silence hung unbearably over the few hundred inconsolable mourners gathered at St Stephen’s Church, Gatuikira in Ndenderu, Kiambu County.

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