Officials in western Kenya have exhumed the body of a local man to strip him of the uniform he was buried in, according to reports.
Martin Shikuku Alukoye was buried in his full Kakamega County Youth Service uniform after drowning this month.
Local officials then exhumed the body to retrieve the uniform, despite opposition from his family.
Mr Alukoye's uncle said they had violated "the laws of the land and the laws of our forefathers".
"We had fully involved the county government in the burial arrangements and they never resisted our proposal to bury [him] in his work regalia," Francis Mutamba said, according to the Daily Nation newspaper.
The family said they had opposed requests from officials to retrieve the uniform following the 31-year-old's burial, but that officials then did so without their consent or court order.
The assistant chief of the Ituti area, Daniel Namayi, condemned the exhumation as he threatened legal action against the officers.
"Once a body has been buried, it requires anyone with a complaint to get a court order in order to exhume it. The county administrators have gone against the law in recovering [the] clothing," he told the Daily Nation.
Elders of the Abang'onya clan have also criticised the county officials for the exhumation, which they view as being taboo.
"We had decided to bury our son at night in line with culture which dictates that a person who died by drowning should not be buried while the sun is shining. But the county officers have surprised us when they decided to exhume the body to recover their regalia," Mr Mutamba said.
The body was dressed in a new set of clothes and re-buried earlier this week after elders performed rituals to cleanse the family.
Source: BBC
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Africans are just F*00ls who don't know what they want! they complain of any st*upid thing why would a human being behave like an an*imal? what are they going to do with that uniform? no wonder they vote for thie*ves to rule them and worship charlatans who call themselves pastors as gods !Africa needs to be taking over by the whites because we don't know what we are doing with our independence! It is meaningless.
Only in Africa
This is Africa for you.
We have time ooooooooo