• Magoha's widow Dr Barbara Odudu hails from Nigeria.
• Udoedi observed that the iron that Kenyans have known Magoha to be was sharpened in Nigeria.
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Dr Ekan Augustus Essien Udoedi told mourners that his late son-in-law Prof George Magoha applied to marry in their family.
Speaking at the funeral service in Siaya on Saturday, Udoedi said that the deceased was three years his junior at the University of Lagos where they were studying medicine.
"We are a family of doctors. Prof Magoha had to apply to join our family and we had to vet him very seriously. My father was a doctor , I am a doctor, my children are doctors and four of my siblings are doctors," Udoedi said.
Udoedi is the brother of Magoha's widow , Dr Barbara Odudu who hails from Nigeria.
Udoedi observed that the iron that Kenyans have known Magoha to be was sharpened in Nigeria.
Nigeria culture has played a major role in Magoha's funeral
There was a fusion of modernity and culture at Lee Funeral Home on Wednesday where the body of the late former education CS George Magoha lay.
With great fanfare, his relatives and Nigerian in-laws converged at Lee to retrieve his body ahead of a town procession.
Magoha’s in-laws from Nigeria performed a cultural practice before the body was put in a Mercedes limousine.
Dressed in gowns like white coverups and hats with green patches, they put rungus on the hearse and spoke some words while tapping on the limousine.
The practice is said to cleanse the dead from any grudges against living beings.
In Nigeria, the cleansing ceremony is meant to be conducted by elderly men but because they are in Kenya, it has been done by young boys.