Kiambu Elders Conduct Cleansing Ceremony to Appease Spirits

Kiambu Elders Conduct Cleansing Ceremony to Appease Spirits

This was after a private developer bought a one acre piece of land at Ksh 1.5 million and started destroying three graves of the late land owners.

The deceased’s siblings, Esther Wangui Wanjohi and 17 others, have been complaining that despite having nowhere to settle, they have been haunted by the spirits of their dead relatives after the private developer destroyed their graves and scattered the crosses.

The family then resulted to demonstrations around the graveyard which in turn attracted attention from fellow villagers.

During the ceremony, the elders slaughtered a sheep in accordance with the Kikuyu traditions, surrounded the land with blood while burying some of the blood in the graves.

 

Rebuilding the graves

They elders later led the siblings to the land and ordered the graves to be rebuilt immediately.

According to James Mburu Njoroge, the village elder, the elders signed a document vowing to defend the orphans in court.

The elders argued that that Chief Justice Willy Mutunga had occasionally reiterated that even magicians and other parties like elders were allowed by the new constitution to give a verdict on matters to do with families and communities.

This is, however, expected to trigger debate as the private developer Kellen Muthoni claims to have legally bought the land.

Speaking on phone, Muthoni said she bought the land from the late Wanjohi Munaku Mwangi who died last year after the death of her wife Mary Waithera and their two elder children Jane Njeri and John Muturi respectively.

 

By Wangui Ngechu

 

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