his children would be the legal inheritors.

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the wishes of the deceased and numerous other factors in order to throw a fitting send-off.

and there is a designated set of protocol to handle those proceedings that are conducted by the state.It is not clear what the charge of false publication referred to.

The police said that Mr Ojwang was lawfully arrested.Senior police officer Stephen Okal is quoted by the Star newspaper as saying what happened in the cell was an attempted suicide.

Follow us on Twitter @BBCAfrica.but Mr Opiyo told online news site Citizen Digital that the arresting police officer said Albert had insulted a senior person on X.