Preparations have started for the send-off of Beryl Achieng', Raila Odinga's younger sister, Beryl Achieng.
Beryl breathed her last on November 25 at the age of 73.
Raila Odinga Junior suggested that Beryl would be laid to rest at the family cemetery at Kang'o Ka Jaramogi.
He led the family through meetings on Saturday, November 29, to deliberate on the send-off of their kin.
Junior revealed that his uncle, Senator Oburu Oginga, had charged him with leading the plans, which climaxed with the identification of the spot where his aunt would be laid to rest.
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Junior and other elders from the larger Jaramogi Ongiga family were captured at the cemetery at Kang'o Ka Jaramogi, where their other kin, including his late brother Fidel Odinga, were buried.
Other important details, including the date of burial, are to be shared soon, Junior said.
"With the blessings of my uncle Oburu Oginga, we sat down with Jakawuor today to choose the final resting place for my late aunt, Ms Beryl Lilian Achieng Mungwari Odinga, at Kango Kajaramogi. Further funeral arrangements and details will be shared in due course," he said.
Beryl divorced her husband, the late Aggrey Ambala, perhaps why she will be laid to rest at her native home.
Ambala, a former MP for Gem, was known to be a violent husband to Beryl, as per the account of Siaya Senator Oburu Oginga in his memoir titled "In The Shadow of My Father".
Oburu detailed how Raila had moved to save their sister from her husband, who had time and again advanced violence on her.
Owing to the sad realities in her marriage, with the help of Raila, Beryl quit the matrimony and left with her two children. They headed to Zimbabwe, where she secured asylum and started off her public service career serving the government in Harare.
Her roles in Zimbabwe included serving as the clerk for two towns. After her retirement, she ventured into private businesses, including a restaurant business in Harare.
Meanwhile, Ambala died in 1985 after collapsing while in detention at the Kodiaga Maximum Prison in Kisumu, where he was being held after being implicated in another MP's murder.
