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At Last, Anyona's Burial Tomorrow
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- Published on Tuesday, 17 July 2007 23:55
Nyanza Provincial Commissioner Aggrey Mudinyu said yesterday security would be beefed up at the funeral in view of the controversy that has dogged Anyona's burial plans since his death 2.
"We are going to deploy adequate security to ensure that he is finally laid to rest," said the PC.
Mudinyu said the Government would not take any chances regarding the security arrangements for the burial of the former MP.
The East African Standard, through its Face the Facts column, has been campaigning for Anyona's burial after controversy erupted over Sh2.3 million Anyona helped raise for Chabumba Women's Group in 1998.
The High Court earlier this year cleared the late MP over any connection to the withdrawal of the money from the Kisii branch of the National Bank of Kenya.
Anyona's siblings yesterday gave the former MP's son and widow the go a head to bury him, but said they would boycott the funeral.
The late George Moseti Anyona
A grader levels the road leading to Anyona's home on Thursday ahead of his burial ceremony at Gatuta village tomorrow.
The late MP's son Kwame and his uncle Ochoki said the burial would go on as planned on Sunday. Kwame said the burial is on as earlier scheduled, adding that they had cleared the mortuary bill amounting to Sh60,000.
According to the programme, the body will be removed from the mortuary on Sunday and buried the same day.
The cortege will arrive at Tombe Primary School in Nyamira at 8.30am on Sunday for a funeral service before the burial.
Pledging that that the police would be deployed at the Anyona home to ensure that he is laid to rest peacefully, Nyanza PC Mudinyu said the controversy that has dogged the late MP's burial was a security concern.
The PC said the Government wants to ensure that there is no tension that may disrupt the burial as some of Anyona's kin have threatened to boycott the funeral.
Nyamira District Commissioner Jamleck Baruga yesterday dismissed rumours that Anyona's burial tomorrow's would not be executed by the military police, reports Robert Nyasato.
Baruga discounted reports that military officers had been detailed to inter Anyona's remains to contain anticipated trouble from those opposed to the burial.
Talk of a plot by some senior local politicians in collaboration with the government to take over the burial ceremony through the military police was rife yesterday in Anyona's Gatuta village.
The DC disclosed that Anyona's immediate family had requested that they bury him peacefully.
However, the security detailed to facilitate the burial was yesterday thrown into disarray.
Nyamira police chief Aggrey Okungu said he visited the home in Central Kitutu location but couldn't trace any family member or the funeral committee to fix security provision arrangements.
