Kalenjin law expert needed to help burial determination
The High Court in Eldoret wants an expert who is knowledgeable on Kalenjin customary law.
Justice Reuben Nyakundi wants the expert to help his court determine where the body of the late former Kenya Navy Officer Barnabas Kipkosgei Kendagor’s first wife Catherine Jerotich ought to be buried.
The judge is presiding over a succession case of the multi-million shillings estate of the former KDF officer pitting his second wife Saline Cheruto and the children of his first wife whose body has been lying at a private hospital in Eldoret town for the last four months.
Cheruto moved to court to block the body of her co-wife from being buried on part of the late former Kenya Navy Officer’s vast land in Moiben sub-county, Uasin Gishu County terming her a stranger.
Jerotich who died aged 65 was to be buried on March 27 at a section of her seven acre farm in Moiben area which had been reportedly given to her and her two sons by her late husband.
Kendagor died on October 16, 2005 interstate and was buried at a section of 63 acres of land owned by Cheruto.
She was to be buried next to her first-born son Stanley, who was laid to rest in October last year. But as her body was being ferried from the mortuary, the family received a court order from Cheruto stopping their burial plans.
