High Court at Eldoret has requested the expertise of a Kalenjin legal specialist to resolve a complex burial dispute involving the multimillion estate of former Kenya Navy Officer Barnabas Kipkosgei Kendagor.
The case presided over by Justice Reuben Nyakundi centers on determining the appropriate burial site for Kendagor’s first wife Catherine Jerotich whose body has been lying at a private hospital in Eldoret town for the last four months.
His second wife Saline Cheruto moved to court to block the body of her co-wife from being buried on part of the late former Kenya Navy Officer’s vast land in Moiben sub-county, Uasin Gishu County terming her a stranger.
Jerotich who died aged 65 was to be buried on March 27 at a section of her seven-acre farm in Moiben area which had been reportedly given to her and her two sons by her late husband.
Kendagor died on October 16, 2005 interstate and was buried at a section of 63 acres of land owned by Cheruto.
She was to be buried next to her first-born son Stanley who was laid to rest in October last year.
But as her body was being ferried from the mortuary the family received a court order from Cheruto stopping their burial plans.
