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Nyamira pastor and police officer arrested for assaulting widow

The Nyamira woman who was assaulted for allegedly declining to bury her husband. [Stanley Ongwae, Standard]

Police in Nyamira have arrested a pastor and a police officer for allegedly participating in last week's horrific attack on a woman for allegedly refusing to do a burial rite.

Elijah Omoi, a police officer based at Kisii Police Station, and Jones Manyansa Mokua, a pastor with the Obedience Pentecostal Church of God, were arraigned at the Nyamira Law Courts, but were not charged.

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