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Teen’s death opens lid of life in streets of fighting hunger, Covid and abuse

Street boys at the City Mortuary mourn their friend who is said to have died of starvation.[Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

A fresh mound of barren earth is all there is to show that he ever existed. There was no cross or tombstone. Even the prayers-for-hire clerics who hover around the Lang’ata Cemetery stayed away.

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