The corpse of Alice Kemuto Bundi, 28, has been exhumed a day after she was buried following reports that her husband did not pay her bride price in full.
According to NTV News, Bundi had been confirmed dead and buried on January 26, 2016, but was dug out of her grave in Nyamatoki village, her matrimonial home, for her husband to pay her bride price in full.
The burial site of the late woman where her body was being exhumed recently.
The reason her family members exhumed the corpse was that the husband has no right to claim possession of the woman since he had yet to complete payment of her dowry.
The coffin with which the late woman was buried before the incident occurred.
They stated however, that he could only claim her after he has finished with the payment on the mother of four who was four months pregnant when she died.
Before carrying out the act, the woman’s family members went to court to obtain a permit from the Kisii law court and argued that they were not informed by the husband on what killed their sister and were neither carried along during the burial process.
Photo of the late woman taken before her demise.
“We had given them [Bundi’s family] one cow and KES 5 000 cash($48), though they were asking for KES 20 000($196),” one of the in-laws interviewed reportedly said.