The nation was alerted to the passing of one of President Daniel Arap Moi’s most vocal opponents from Kisii on November 6, 2003. George Anyona, the former MP for Kitutu Masaba, passed away in an automobile accident outside of Nairobi, the nation’s capital.
Anyona gained notoriety after losing his parliamentary seat and being imprisoned for eight years by President Daniel Moi.
The late MP’s remains was kept in a morgue for nearly seven months following his passing while a dispute over his burial arose.
While the family battled to have the former legislator’s body laid to rest, it was kept in storage at a Kisii private hospital.
The upcoming funeral of the 58-year-old Kenyan socialist pioneer who suffered political persecution, incarceration, and torture during Moi and Jomo Kenyatta’s regimes was shrouded in a great deal of uncertainty.
On December 7, 2003, mourners descended upon his rural Kisii home, the majority of them wearing traditional Kisii regalia, to give their hero the fitting farewell.
When they got to his house, they found out that a court order that was supposed to last for seven months had caused the funeral to be rescheduled.
On June 13, 2004, seven months after his tragic death, the injunction against his burial was removed, and Anyona was finally laid to rest.
Anyona’s brother and wife claim that he died impoverished because he chose to give what little he had to the less fortunate people in his community.
It was reported that he would donate more than 70% of his income.
