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A family in Kandara, Murang'a county, is awaiting a court order to proceed with the exhumation of a body they initially mistook for their kin, whom they presumed dead.
35-year-old Joseph Kiarie left home in June this year to take up a potter's job in Githurai, Kiambu county.
He, however, lost contact with his family whose members were later informed that he had been fatally attacked by assailants in Githurai and that his body was lying in City Mortuary, Nairobi.
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The family members made their way to the morgue, where they showed a body before positively identifying it.
They proceeded to bury the body in their native home, oblivious of the turn of events in the offing.
Two months into the burial, Kiarie placed a call to his mother, Mary Wamboi, whom he informed he had relocated to Gatanga, where he was employed as a tea plucker.
Wamboi said she was shocked as she had concluded he had died.
She was, however, relieved after learning that her son was still alive.
The 35-year-old admitted to having cut communication with his family, vowing to go to church for cleansing after the happening that has left many shocked.
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For closure, the body would have to be exhumed paving the way for cleansing rituals.
In a related 2021 story, a Kakamega native returned home after 14 years only to learn his family had presumed him dead and even buried a body believed to be his.
Anthony Muhati had left behind his family and moved to Trans Nzoia county, where he built a life of his own.
The 58-year-old only wanted to clarify to his family that he was still alive and that the person they buried in his place was a stranger.
After disappearing in 2007, many of his family members could not quite remember his physical appearance and when they heard a body that looked like that of Muhati was lying in a Kitale morgue sometime in 2020, they took the first bus to the mortuary to find out if it was really him.
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However, days after the Kitale trip, Muhati's mother Grace Shilwatso told his Amukaka that after deep reflection, she was sure that the man's body they had viewed in Kitale was his long-lost son.
What followed is a burial in August 2020 that would cost the family KSh 40,000 in a bid to find closure over their missing son.
With his reappearance after over a decade of going missing, Muhati was subjected to some traditional cleansing before he would be fully welcomed into the family.
Until the body is exhumed, he could neither eat nor sleep in any of the houses in the homestead.
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