Thousands of mourners thronged Sisokhe village, Bunyala West location in Navakholo constituency to bid farewell to Everlyn Namukhula, the Kakamega woman who died weeks after giving birth to five children.
The funeral service was held at Kamuli Primary School and Namukhula was interred at 3.30pm in a Christian ceremony conducted by a local pastor at her home in Chimo area.
Her grave was dug on the right hand side of her new house that was built by the county government. On the right hand side of her grave, lay two fresh small unmarked graves belonging to her two sons — members of the quintuplets that succumbed because of ill-health a week after admission at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, Eldoret.
The duo was reportedly buried at the crack of dawn yesterday in an elderly-men-only ceremony conducted by elders from both the Batsotso and Banyala sub-tribes of the Luhyia community.
There was no feasting as any funeral ceremony for the infants was feared would bring death to the surviving members of the quintuplets.
Namukhula’s husband Gilbert Nanzushi was also prohibited from the two burial rites, according to David Munyanya, from the Banyala sub-tribe who was conversant with the ceremonies so far conducted to appease the spirits and cleanse the home.