A sombre burial ceremony attended by President William Ruto degenerated into a war of words as dignitaries traded blame on who ought to carry responsibility for the abduction of youths critical of the Kenya Kwanza Administration.
Protocol and traditions were broken as senior officials tried to outdo each other in attacks, at one point forcing National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula to respond to some allegations put to his family, which was burying its matriarch Ann Nanyama Wetangula.
The leaders had congregated to pay their last respects to Ann, Wetangula's mother, in Kabuchai, Bungoma County.
The issue was brought to the attention of the President by Trans Nzoia Governor George Natembeya, who asked the Head of State to put an end to the abduction of youth.
