Widow blocked from burying son in family plot over inheritance dispute, asked to exhume husband's body

A 57-year-old widow was dealt a major blow when a Nkubu court in Meru County ordered her to vacate a 1.9-acre plot of land where she had lived since 1983.

Hellen Ndumba has been ordered to vacate the land on which she built a house and lived with her husband, Luka Murithi, who died in July 2018. In addition to exhuming her husband's body from the land, Ms Ndumba is unable to bury her son Paul Murithi on it, and his body has been at Nyeri General Hospital mortuary since July last year.