A court has postponed the hearing of a case by missing lawyer Simon Lilan on a dispute surrounding the burial of former Nominated MP Mark Too.
Eldoret principal magistrate Harrison Barasa made the ruling after Lilan's lawyer Morgan Omusundi informed the court that he has been missing for the last four days.
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Lilan had obtained a court order stopping Too's burial but it was lifted just hours to the ceremony on Monday.
He sued Too's second widow Mary, Kapseret MP Oscar Sudi and Lee Funeral Home, asking them to stop the burial
until an independent postmortem established how Too died.
The lawyer claimed the former politician may have been killed because of politics and his vast wealth.
Omusundi also said he had not been served with documents that led to the lifting of the order stopping the funeral.
Too's family lawyer Steve Biko said his clients were not aware of
how Lilan went missing and that they wanted police to quickly help them find him.
Biko told the court on Thursday that there may be a malicious plan to implicate his clients.
"Its important to clear the air that my clients are still grieving the loss of Too just like the family of Lilan is saddened by his disappearance," he said.
"My clients are not aware or involved in how he disappeared. We all want him found speedily so that we can deal with then case he had filed."
Biko added that
Too's widows Mary and Sophie had filed affidavits before the court saying they were satisfied with postmortem results showing Too died from a heart problem.
The case will be mentioned on January 18.
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