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Drama as mourners protest quality, size of ‘Jakom’s’ casket

The antagonists were claiming that the casket was cheaper and substandard as had earlier been agreed.

There was drama at Narok Referral Hospital mortuary after mourners clashed over the cost and the type of casket a section of the committee entrusted with the burial arrangement had bought for a prominent Luo elder.

A section of the mourners rejected the newly bought casket, claiming that part of cash allocated for the purchase a decent burial for the chairman of the Luo community in Narok Paul ‘Jakom’ Ouma was allegedly misappropriated.

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