{"id":4349,"date":"2020-06-07T13:27:46","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T13:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=4349"},"modified":"2020-06-07T13:27:48","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T13:27:48","slug":"i-have-given-up-on-the-fight-to-have-my-husband-buried-former-tpf-winner-ruth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=4349","title":{"rendered":"I have given up on the fight to have my husband buried: Former TPF winner Ruth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gospel singer Ruth Matete a former reality tv show Tusker Project Fame winner has today given up on her efforts to have her departed husband John Apewojeye best known as Beloved have a descent burial. Beloved John succumbed to burns after a gas cylinder exploded at their matrimonial home in Athi river over two a month ago. <br> His death was a bit controversial even as his Nigerian friend went on social media to dispute the real cause of death even before a postmoterm was conducted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her late husband&#8217;s body has been lying at the Kenyatta National mortuary since then. A government pathologist conducted a postmoterm and exonerated Ruth Matete of any guilt even as the Nigerian High commission still maintained that there was foul play over the death of the Nigerian national.<br>\n\u201cYou can hold the body and do with it as you please,\u201d reads part of Matete\u2019s letter to the embassy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Ruth Matete&#8217;s lawyer Mr  Odanga, Matete arrived at the decision after the embassy frustrated every effort to give her late husband a decent burial<br>\n\u201cShe will now try to move on and should not be contacted by anyone in regard to the burial,\u201d said Odanga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last month, Matete\u2019s family accused the Nigerian Embassy of delaying Apewajoye\u2019s burial even after his family consented to having his remains buried in Kenya<br>\nRuth Matete has been holding funds drives to help sort the skyrocketing mortuary fees but this will be  a thing behind her now.Ruth is pregnant carrying Apewojoye&#8217;s baby<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gospel singer Ruth Matete a former reality tv show Tusker Project Fame winner has today given up on her efforts to have her departed husband John Apewojeye best known as Beloved have a descent burial. Beloved John succumbed to burns after a gas cylinder exploded at their matrimonial home in Athi river over two a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4349","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\/4349","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4352,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349\/revisions\/4352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}