STORY: Ugandan Olympic marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei was laid to relaxation in her hometown of Bukwo, on Saturday.
The 33-year-old died after allegedly being doused in petrol and set alight by her former associate within the Kenyan village the place she was dwelling…
simply three weeks after getting back from a forty fourth place end on the Paris Olympic Video games.
She was given a burial with full navy honours.
As a brass band performed at her funeral, troopers from the Uganda’s Individuals’s Defence Forces acted as pall bearers.
With the area people watching on, her father Joseph Cheptegei expressed his love for his daughter, saying
she was a well mannered lady and he beloved her a lot.
Cheptegei’s tragic loss of life sparked anger over the excessive ranges of violence towards girls in Kenya.
Authorities knowledge from 2022 exhibits one in three Kenyan females aged 15 to 49 have suffered bodily violence.
Kenya’s Sports activities Minister Kipchumba Murkomen addressed the problem of home violence on the funeral.
“We’re responsible as authorities, but in addition the group is responsible. Allow us to say the reality. It isn’t true that we didn’t know even in the area people that Rebecca was going through household issues.”
Cheptegei is the third elite runner to allegedly die by the hands of a romantic associate in Kenya since 2021.
