Hundreds of mourners in Bomachoge Chache Constituency in Kisii County, many of them Kenyatta University students, turned up for the funeral of a local musician, defying Covid-19 guidelines on burials.
The mourners were attending the burial of Adventist Church singer, Belden Nyabuto, who was also a fourth-year Kenyatta University student.
Police officers who were deployed to the funeral had too much on their hands following the large number of mourners who thronged the burial.
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The local MP, Alpha Miruka, who attended the funeral warned the mourners to heed the Ministry of Health COVID-19 prevention protocols.
He also called on the Music Society of Kenya to continue remitting royalties from Nyabuto's content to his young family.