Residents of Kochogo village in Ahero, Kisumu County giving views at the
scene of the accident involving a hearse carrying a body. The
deceased's relatives claim the accident may resulted from his
“displeasure” at not being visited when he was ailing in hospital or the
insults his body received from one of his brothers before the journey
began. Photo/JACOB OWITI
A van transporting a body was involved in two road accidents on Friday night
A
14-seater private van transporting the body of George Mbaiy, 35, and
his relatives from Nairobi to Kakamega encountered two accidents in a
span of four hours.
Mr Mbaiy’s wife Jacinta Auma
explained that the incidents could either be due to his “displeasure” at
not being visited when ailing in hospital or the insults his body
received from one of his brothers before the journey began.
She
added that, after being removed from the Kenyatta National Hospital
mortuary, the body of Mr Mbaiy appeared to have been shedding tears
after insults that were accompanied by the brother repeatedly hitting
the coffin.
The first accident occurred around 10pm in Kericho and left some occupants with slight injuries.
The
second occurred around 1am in Ahero, Kisumu County. It left many
occupants slightly injured and rendered the vehicle immovable. It also
and saw the coffin fall off the vehicle along with the luggage rack it
was attached to.
Two drivers who operated the van said there was some mystery in the way both accidents occurred.
“Before
the first accident occurred, there was an eerie darkness before my
eyes. Before I knew it, the vehicle had plunged into an obstacle,” said
Mr Ibrahim Wakhayanga, adding that the vehicle ran into a ballast heap.
Mr Wakhayanga said he found it very strange for someone to insult his dead brother as had happened before the journey.
His
colleague Hussein Munyendo said, “We managed to get the vehicle back to
the road and I was driving with moderate speed when I heard a bang on
the left front wheel. I tried my best to control the vehicle and it was
with great luck that we didn’t land into a ditch.”
Mr
Munyendo added that in his career as a hearse driver, he has come to
learn that such happenings have some mysterious powers behind them.
The
deceased man’s wife said her son Kevin had communicated a message his
father told him in a dream that the journey was bound to be doomed. “He
heeded to the warning and travelled separately with his wife,” she said.
The wife informed the Press that the cause of Mr Mbaiy’s death was not exactly known.
“He
developed an illness that saw him admitted at the Kenyatta National
Hospital. In all that time he was ill, his brothers never visited him.
It was either me or our son Kevin,” said Ms Auma, a househelp in
Nairobi’s Kariobangi Estate.
The family left the scene
around noon on Saturday on another vehicle from the hearse company,
having sent off the deceased’s brother who had hurled insults at the
body.
They had left Nairobi at around 2pm on Friday and
Mr Mbaiy’s remains were to be interred on Saturday at Bushieni village
in Butere
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