Kenya Stockholm Blog

Kiboi Memorial In The News

Body of Kenyan diplomat due home tomorrow

By TIMES REPORTER

The body of a Kenyan diplomat who died in a mysterious house fire in Oslo, Norway arrives tomorrow.

A low profile memorial service for the late diplomat, Mr James Kiboi, took place at St Emmanuel Church in Stockholm on Monday.

Although a decision to hold the service was taken on Friday last week after the body was released to the family, sources say many Kenyans learnt of the service only hours before the event.

The memorial service came in the wake of concerns by the head of “Wazee Hukumbuka Club” in Sweden, Mr Gerry Midenyo, that such a service was necessary. Midenyo said it would be wrong for Kiboi’s body to be transported to Kenya without a memorial service in Stockholm.

The Kenyan ambassador to Sweden, Daniel Mukiri Kinyanjui, dismissed rumours in Stockholm that Mr Kiboi’s family had been denied the right to view the body in Oslo last week.

“As far as I am concerned, the family has taken control of the body and this is the protocol,” he said.

Talk in Stockholm had it that Kiboi’s family had been informed that they could only view the body in Kenya due to some unspecified reasons.

In the meantime, there is still silence in Norway about the circumstances that might have led to Kiboi’s death. Contacts in Kenya say the general position is that Kiboi may have been killed. “The issue for us is the details,” a source said.

http://www.timesnews.co.ke/28sep06/nwsstory/news8.html

September 28, 2006 - Posted by makozewe | In The News, Uncategorized