By MN Reporter

There was drama at Akidiva Funeral Home in Migori town on Thursday morning when mourners beat up attendant for stealing clothes meant for a body.

Family and friend of Job Ocholla, who until his death was a clerk at Migori county assembly Agriculture Committee, were treated to shock when they arrived to pick the body and could not find clothes.

His grandfather Elisha Odie, who is also governor Okoth Obado’s father-in-law, said the family had bought suit and shoes for the deceased worth close to Sh20,000.

“The previous day we left clothes for Ocholla, this morning we didn’t find any,” Odie told reporters.

Angry mourners beat up the attendant who fled, before they bought other clothes and took the body for burial at Nyandema village in Nyatike.

The hospital’s owner Akidiva Idagiza did not respond to queries from the press.

On Saturday, Migori Referral Hospital attendant was beaten and locked in the mortuary by the family of Joseph Onyango after the attendant failed to release clothes he was booked with.

Onyango was murdered and his body thrown in river Migori, family said the attendant was given money to hide the clothes to be used by killers for superstition.