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Fredrick Opondo is a disturbed man. He lost his mother this week and two of his siblings are in hospital.

The cold send-off that the family gave their mother still bothers him. The burial of Pauline Aoko, 56, in Ochiko Wange village in Ugunja, Siaya, was unusual. Opondo recalls how they were ordered not to allow any outsiders to attend.

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