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Body stays in morgue for three months over dowry dispute

Nairobi's Lang'ata Cemetery. [Photo: Courtesy]

It is now three months since Priscilla Mwango died but her body is still at the mortuary because of a dispute over dowry.

Nathan Ondieki and Mwango were married for 26 years, but he cannot bury his wife because his in-laws have demanded that he pay more than one cow as dowry.

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