Five siblings are involved in a legal dispute over how to give their late mother a fitting funeral, including where to hold the funeral mass before her burial.
Three of the siblings sued two others, alleging that they had been excluded from the burial arrangements. Their mother died on September 21, 2025.
On September 28, the two siblings, the respondents, reportedly ran an obituary stating that their mother would be buried on October 3 after a night vigil at her home.
The petitioners then moved to court to seek urgent orders to block the planned burial, arguing that they had been excluded from the plans.
"Unless retrained, the respondents will process with burial to the exclusion of the plaintiffs, thereby occasioning irreparable harm, family disharmony and indignity to the memory of the deceased," petitioners stated.
The petitioners also demanded that the mother be ferried from a funeral home in Nakuru to Nairobi for a Mass service at a Karen church before the burial.
The three siblings also asked the court for a post-mortem to be done to establish the cause of their mother's death
According to the petitioners, one of the siblings took their mother out of her home in Langata, Nairobi, and left with her without their knowledge.
The petitioners informed the court that the sibling who had moved in with their mother then left her with an unknown person, despite her suffering from dementia, and travelled to the US on September 7.
They added that they did not know their mother's whereabouts for five weeks, until the first respondent announced her death from cardiac arrest in a WhatsApp group.
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In its ruling, the court barred the funeral home from releasing the mother's body to anyone until the case was determined.
The petitioners had asked the court for permission to transport the body from Nakuru to Nairobi, where the mother worshipped.
