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Lawyer Danstan Omari speaking at Lee Funeral Home on Friday, April 25, 2025

A total of seven pathologists are taking part in the postmortem exercise on the body of Kariobangi North MCA Joel Munuve following his sudden death.

The exercise began on Friday, April 2,5, at Lee Funeral Home.

Chief Government Pathologist Dr. Johansen Oduor is leading the medical team with the process attracting interest from political, medical, and investigative agencies.

Speaking at the funeral home, Lawyer Danstan Omari confirmed the involvement of several parties, each represented by a pathologist.

“The first pathologist is Johansen Oduor, representing the government. Two, the family has sent a pathologist. The third one is from AAR. The fourth pathologist is from the County Assembly of Nairobi,” he said.

“The County Government of Nairobi (Executive wing) has also sent a pathologist, and lastly, the Member of Parliament for Embakasi East, Babu Owino, who has two pathologists.”

Omari welcomed further involvement from those interested in the matter.

“Anybody who has an interest in this matter is free to come with their pathologist,” he said.

He said there are also more than 15 experts, including those from the DCI, that are taking part in the process.

“Alongside the pathologists, there are more than 15 experts from the DCI, from the government analyst, from the forensics part and the scenes of crime,” Omari said.

In addition, a laboratory expert has been assigned to collect and examine samples.

“There is a representative of a lab that has been sent here to come and take samples. We shall be updating you as the progress goes,” he added.

Kileleshwa MCA Robert Alai said they had a briefing session with the medical team before the examination started.

“We have had a brief meeting with the doctors just to inform them of the kind of history the deceased had, how he has been living in the recent past,” he said.

Alai said they also shared details about Munuve’s last known activities, including what he took as food and the meetings he attended.

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Lee Funeral Home
  • Lee Funeral Home offers personalized burial services, ensuring that each ceremony provides a meaningful and dignified farewell.
  • It has been popular for hosting Kenya’s powerful and elite class for many years.

Lee Funeral Home was founded by John Stuart Lee in 1987, and it was Kenya’s first funeral home.

Lee was born and raised in Kenya until 1963, when his family relocated back to the United Kingdom (UK).

While in the UK, he joined the men’s police force and worked with medical practitioners.

Lee had been in the main police force in the UK and had worked for the coroner’s office in a hospital, where he said in a previous interview that he had been dealing with pathologists and undertakers every day.

Because of Lee’s background, he was asked by people in Kenya to take care of funeral arrangements for their beloved ones, and he would do that out of the holding room of Nairobi Hospital.

He started working at Nairobi City Mortuary and at the Nairobi holding room.

The  City Mortuary was in a dismal state, and the people working with Lee did not want to go there themselves, so the idea to start the home came to him.

“When I returned to Kenya, I was not pleased at the bad condition of the city mortuary,” he said in a past interview.

Lee Funeral Home has been a tenant of Nairobi Hospital for many years.

Lee Funeral Home services

Lee Funeral Home offers personalized burial services, ensuring that each ceremony provides a meaningful and dignified farewell.

It has been popular for hosting Kenya’s powerful and elite class for many years.

The mortuary has also played a vital role in hosting politicians and the wealthy class, including some of the most influential of Kenyan bodies.

Lee Funeral Home charges

Lee’s funeral charges include body collection of approximately 5,000 with a daily storage fee of 3,000 per day.

Further, body washing and dressing cost about Ksh5,000, with coffins ranging from Ksh35,000 to Ksh130,000.

Besides, if you need jaguar hearse services, you will need to pay at least Ksh130,000.

Other services have different charges depending on the demand.

Former presidents of Kenya Daniel Arap Moi and Mwai Kibaki, prominent individuals such as the late Senator Mutula Kilonzo, Former Cabinet Secretary of Education Magoha, George Saitoti, and Joseph Nkaissery, key businessmen such as Jacob Juma, Njenga Karume, and Bob Collymore the former Safaricom CEO, are some of the prominent persons that were hosted at Lee.

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Fallen Bomet Governor Joyce Laboso’s body on Thursday left the Lee Funeral Home, Nairobi County for the first funeral service at the All Saints Cathedral.

The body will then later in the day be flown to Sotik before spending a night at Bomet County government headquarters.

Below is the funeral program for the late governor.

9am: Memorial service begins with opening prayers and hymns

10am: Eulogy by son Ted Abonyo

12:30pm: Tributes from Kenya High choir, friends, Sotik and Nyakach family representative

2pm: Sermon by Bishop Ernest Ngeno assisted by Canon Sammy Wainiaina

3pm: Service ends. Body leaves for Wilson Airport for airlifting to Sotik

On Friday, a funeral service will be held at the Bomet Green Stadium.

She will be buried on Saturday at her marital home in Fort Ternan, Koru, Kisumu County.

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