Morris Namiinda’s family is a troubled family because their son who was the first Corona virus victim in the country might be disposed off through crematorium rites. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The family is worried and totally against this move saying that according to their culture they have never held cremation, family spokesman said, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Morris Namiinda who was an elder believed in traditions, and as a family we are saying we have no room for cremation, his body must be physically laid to rest at his Trans Nzioa farm,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe acknowledge that coronavirus is here, and Namiinda\u2019s death is the first in the country but that should not be used to stigmatise us, we are already bereaved and in mourning.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
They demand that he be buried in his ancestral home so that when the pandemic ends they will have to perform cultural rites according to the burial rites of the community. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Morris Namiinda’s family is a troubled family because their son who was the first Corona virus victim in the country might be disposed off through crematorium rites. The family is worried and totally against this move saying that according to their culture they have never held cremation, family spokesman said, Morris Namiinda who was an …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2280"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2283,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions\/2283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}