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[SIZE=7]Majanja’s body received in Nairobi, to be buried Saturday in Kakamega[/SIZE]
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May 24, 2018
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BY BMJ MURIITHI
The body of Timothy Majanja, a 71-year-old homeless Kenyan who has been living in the United States and who, at one point, wanted to return home after 46 years in North America, arrived in Nairobi Thursday ready for burial in Lubao Village, Kakamega County on Saturday.
His body was received by Umash Funeral home in the Kenyan capital before it was transported by road to its final resting place in Kakamega.
Majanja died last month at at Grady Memorial Hospital in downtown Atlanta where he had been rushed in an ambulance while in critical condition.
Medical personnel at the hospital said he died from complications emanating to an earlier ailment which led to him having “extremely high blood pressure.”
Soon after receiving the news of his death, Majanja’s relatives in Lubao, Kakamega, expressed their wish that the body could be flown home for burial.
On Thursday, Protus told Ksnmedia that he was very happy that the body arrived home.
“Is this what we would have wished? Of course not…but I can tell you that we are very delighted to see the body of Mzee Majanja. This will bring some form of closure,” he said.
“We were devastated by the news and the elders here couldn’t fathom the idea of their son being buried or cremated in a foreign land, thousands of miles away from his ancestral home,” said Protus Muhanji Shikoli, Majanja’s nephew.
“We have been through a lot as a family….we wished we could see him alive but obviously, it was not meant to be,” he added.
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After Majanja’s death, well wishers, friends and family members got together and raised enough money to pay for the services at West Cobb Funeral home where the body was preserved and also to repatriate it to Kenya for burial.
“Let us never grow weary of doing good,” said Pastor Salania Salania quoting part of a Biblical verse (Galatians 6:9 when Apostle Paul was writing to the Galatians). He was one of the organizers of a fundraiser held at believers’ Center in Atlanta, Georgia, where close to $7,000 was raised. Most of those who contributed money had not even met Majanja in person. “We didn’t have to know him to help,” added Mr Salania.
According to Ms Catherine Ogembo, Majanja’s niece who lives in the New Hope City in Minnesota, and who is accompanying the boday, her uncle’s final journey will be on Saturday when he will be laid to rest on his piece of land in Kakamega.