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Family divided over kin's body organs donated in Saudi Arabia

Esther Wangari and her late husband Edward Gathungu, a Kenyan chef who was involved in a road accident in Saudi Arabia on October 1, 2022. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

After failing to get a job in Kenya, Edward Gathungu left for Saudi Arabia last year when he got an offer to work as a chef at a hotel in the Middle East kingdom.

Soon after settling down in the Gulf, it became routine for Gathungu to call his wife and two children aged eight and five on a daily basis to bond over the day's events.

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