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Kakamega family who buried wrong body invites elders to perform cleansing rituals

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A family in Kakamega County's Navakholo Sub-county is in pain after spending large sums of money on burial arrangements for a body that later turned out not to be that of their deceased relative.

Emmanuel Shamwata, an overseer at the Church of God in Elwai, had a long illness and died at home before being taken to a mortuary in Kakamega town.

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