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There was confusion during the burial of Kenyan billionaire Wilfred Murungi on Tuesday after hundreds of mourners, including relatives, were stopped from attending the ceremony.
The Daily Nation reports that hundreds of mourners who turned up at his home in Magutuini village, Tharaka-Nithi County were turned away by heavily armed men who guarded the compound.
The publication says that only less than 10 close family members and relatives were allowed to enter the compound for his burial that lasted for about one hour.
The Mastermind Tobacco founder allegedly lived a reclusive life and rarely interacted with his village-men.
Several officers were stationed at the three gates leading to his home to stop unauthorized mourners from accessing the compound.
Two helicopters landed at Kiurani Primary School at around 11 am on Tuesday, one carrying his body while the other carried the tycoon’s family members and clergy from Nairobi.
A Mercedes Benz hearse then ferried his body to his home, which is about a kilometer from the school.
Reporters who turned up to cover the burial ceremony were also barred from the accessing either the school or his home.
A group of men hired to dig his grave were asked to leave the compound and wait outside the gate only to be called back to fill it with soil.
Neighbors who spoke to journalists said they were not shocked since the same incident happened during the burial of Murungi's late wife in 2012.
Among the few people at the billionaire's burial were his two sons and two daughters.
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some people are selfish up to the grave .....who knows what had to be put in the grave...we need Jesus
@Don Brian:
Hatuhitaji mtu yeyote. Tunahitaji kutumia "AKILI" yetu ipasavyo. Akili hii tulipewa na MWUMBAJI MKUU alipotuumba. Ni lazima tuitumie kila sekondi, dakika, saa, siku, wiki, mwezi, mwaka, na hata pia karne kabla mtu mwingine hajaitumia kwa manufaa yake au raha zake mwenyewe.
Exactly. Murungi used it to Maximum and became a Billionaire. If he had depended on these Poor villagers: he would have died Poor. Good for him.👍
I also do not want fake people or unknowns coming to bid me farewell.
I think Murungi knew how to Prosper by Staying away from them SUCKERS. For Business experience Taught him that "Villagers, Friends, and Relatives (kama Tamaa na Wivu zao) are the Ones who would Fail your Businesses through Kukopa, Kudoea, Kuroga, na Kuulalia mlango Wazi Baraka ama Utajiri wake (until you die). And So he Kept them Away to Death; and so became a Billionaire.😙
He was buried by the ones who loved him. Burials are family and friends functions not public fascination events.
Yah some people they don't HV humanity n dis is n disgrace funeral, if people knows from de start they should not even set their foot there, bcs they don't considered as people, from faithfully words drmakome or mkhatshwa
This was gutsy and I love it. Great idea. The idea of making a funeral more of a show off than one that bids goodbye to a loved one is sickening to say the least.
Why have thousands at your burial when 8 would do? Burials are not weddings where you invite people. And if you were reclusive, like he was, the more reason you should limit the star gazers and the likely rumor mongers. Mambo ya jesus wachia the Council of Nicaea na yule kiongozi wa wakati huo, Constantine.
Whether your burial is attended by a million people or not, it makes no difference. What is important is the relationship of the soul of the deceased.
He died as he lived, alone with his money. Fair thee well recluse!
Good. Why waste your time going to kuchungulia kwa fence? Hawa watu wangukuwa wanalima ama kuchuna miraa.
his burial his choice, atleast he was buried how he lived his life as a loner. Most funerals people show up just to steal phones and other things like sugar, you know our people..
Huyu Ndugu yetu Hayati (the late) Murungi alifanya jambo la busara sana. Alijua wanasiasa watakuja kwenye mazishi ili watafute kura za 2022 kama "mkristo Ruto" anavyofanya.
Kwa wale wanaofikiria kuzikwa, Ndugu Murungi ameweka mfano mzuri sana. Mazishi ni jambo la familia peke yake tu.
Asante sana kwa kuacha mfano mzuri kwa taifa zima. Ningependa kuona wanasiasa wakikatazwa kuleta mambo ya sias zao chafu mahali penye mazishi.
@Imara,I would hope too that people emulate this guy who @Njai says helped educate kids out there without broadcasting it to the entire world. Now if he had also been cremated, that would have been the most perfect funeral ever!
Ai hata kama ni kuwa reclusive. Hata relatives jamani? Kwani how did he walk on earth? What shaped his lifestyle before he became a billionaire? He didn't have that one friend akiwa mtoto, whom he was mischievous with? What about his teachers? Watu wali hustle na yeye? Hakiwahi shikwa na kiu akomba mtu maji kwa hiyo village aki grow up? What about his colleagues? Peers? That's what funerals are for. People around him need closure even if they didn't meet in his years as a billionaire. Because people prosper then start to be reclusive. Hii iko na mambo ingine ya kichini chini.
@Mgeni, umesema. Not even could the family 'throw soil'...bury their loved one. This is another level of in(sanity)! Watoto aliosemesha wako wapi kama ni kweli???
That family belong to another planet...not earth.....hata mazishi ya wazungu...ma-weirdo...are no where in comparison.
Kudos to this family. Siku mazishi ni kwenda kukula tu na kupiga siasa. Safari hii wanasiasa na ma-idlers wengine waliangulia patupu. The late Murungi silently assisted hundreds of needy children atain education without the usual self advertisement as we are accustomed to. As Ndugu @Imara says, "ameacha mfano mwema ambao unafaa kuigwa na wote".
This is a new one but I like it. Keep it very simple. Once you are dead, you are dead. What good is having thousands of people who don't even care about the dead pushing and pulling everywhere. Then you have all these pathetic politicians coming out to the funerals with their own agendas making it a political rally. This is not a soccer match. I say no to professional mourners. Stay away. Ashes to ashes.
What a big loss to politicians who could have flown from all over Kenya to have a field-day of politics. Team kieleweke vs team tanga tanga.
Ni bora Nyayo za Hayati Murungi zifuatwe wakati mtu amekufa halafu zianzishe sura mpya ya taratibu ya mazishi katika nchi yetu tukufu ya Kenya.
Haikosi wana siasa wengi wamekasirika kwa sababu hawakupata nafasi ya kutafuta kura za 2022. Poleni sana!
Hata mkewe Hayati Murungi alipokufa, watu hawakuruhusiwa kufika kwenye mazishi.
Nimesikiliza kwa makini jinsi watu walivyofikiria juu ya mazishi yake wakieleza kwa lugha ya Kimeru na pia Kiingereza.
His burial his choice. Maybe he had it on his will about how his funeral will be conducted and who should attend.
What a class act all the way to his grave. It doesn't make sense to have thousands of idlers and opportunistic politicians making a circus out of a solemn farewell. I wish to be cremated on my death day. No need to waste people's time and money arranging funerals and transporting bodies. And why inconvenience the bereaved with endless maombolezi and invasion of privacy? Let them grieve in peace.
Thats the best burial I have never heard of..good decision indeed by whoever planned it
no might goes beyond the grave.it is all chasing wind.only Jesus can be grasped coz he has surety for eternity.