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Family in trouble after burying wrong body and getting dowry

Hannah Wangari returned home 15 years after she was presumed dead and buried. [Boniface Gikandi, Standard]

A Murang’a woman who went missing 27 years ago has returned home, despite her family receiving her dowry and attending her burial in Nyeri County fourteen years ago.

While Hannah Wangari’s family erased memories of their daughter after burying her in her husband’s home in Nyeri. 

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