Kibaki burial: Crowds line highway to greet cortege

The cortege snakes through Karatina town.

Photo credit: Sila Kiplagat | Nation Media Group

Hundreds of Kenyans on Saturday morning lined the Nairobi-Nyeri highway to see the cortege of former president Mwai Kibaki. 

Kibaki's body was transported by road from Lee Funeral Home in Nairobi to his ancestral home in central Kenya. 

He will be laid to rest in Othaya, Nyeri County. 

Photo credit: Sila Kiplagat
Photo credit: Evans Habil | Nation Media Group
Photo credit: Evans Habil | Nation Media Group
Photo credit: Evans Habil
Photo credit: Sila Kiplagat | Nation Media Group