When the buried crawl from their graves to rob the living

The Presbyterian Church of East Africa (PCEA) Secretary General Reverend Peter Kania address the press at PCEA Lanet Parish on August 13, 2017. [File]

Watching, in horror movies, as the dead crawl from the grave, steal from the living and creep back into their caskets leaving in their wake horrified and traumatized victims, can be thrilling.

But now, a new breed of criminals is rewriting these horror scripts, with a twist where the dead steal from millionaires long buried.

Sample this: On July 26 last year, Rev Peter Kania Kariuki, the senior-most cleric of the Presbyterian Church of East Africa, succumbed to Covid-19-related complications at a Nairobi hospital.