In the sleepy Arahuka village of Subukia sub-county in Nakuru, a family of four were laid to rest in a mass grave in an emotional ceremony on Wednesday.
The young couple, Peter Miano Wahome, his wife Susan Muthoni and their children Princeton Wahome, 2, and daughter Evalyn Nyawira, 7, perished in a road accident on the morning of February 28.
The accident occurred near Two Rivers Mall in Kiambu at about 3am when the Toyota Passo they were travelling in collided with a saloon car.
The driver of the saloon car is still admitted at a hospital in Nairobi.
The burial service was attended by thousands of residents among them the area MP Samuel Gachobe and Kabazi MCA Peter Mbae.
The National and County governments were also represented.
During the burial, family and friends described Wahome as a humble and visionary man who had great plans for his family.
A friend, Gerald Njihia said the taxi driver who used to operate in Githurai 45, had saved up cash and built a house in Mwihoko in the Nairobi Metropolis.
“I understand the family was to move in their new house the following day but they all perished as they travelled back to Nairobi,” he said.
The family was travelling from Subukia where Wahome had gone to pay part of his wife’s dowry.
Wahome’s father Wahome Gichuki said they had engaged in a lengthy conversation on the night before they travelled.
He nostalgically remembers his granddaughter stubbornly refusing to travel back which her parents.
“We had to persuade her to go with her parents with a promise that they would come back soon,” he said.
Wahome’s brothers described him as a hardworking man who always inspired them to do great things.
-Edited by Sarah Kanyara