Magwanja Osufuche narrated how he was introduced to an uncommon role inside the mortuary that a faint-hearted person would not stand. Whilst many know that inside morgues are mainly attendants who take care of dead human bodies, he was charged with ”finishing’ the presumed dead. The Siaya native said a stranger he met in a Nairobi street introduced him to the job after he sought accommodation in the latter’s house. He had left home to seek greener pastures in the city. Osufuche said that when he met the stranger, he had been brutally welcomed in Nairobi by people who mistook him for a thief. “I was in Nairobi and wanted to board a vehicle to Siaya, but I did not have the fare. I resolved to remain in the vehicle no matter the efforts to force me out. Those collecting fare then thought I was a thief. They started beating me and threw me out of the bus,” he recalled during an interview on Citizen Radio. After the beating, Osufuche said he resorted to seeking refuge in the streets where he shared food residues and sleeping places with the street children. He stayed in the streets for a week before meeting the aforementioned stranger. “I approached him after seeing him from a distance; he was looking like a Luo native. He gave me a listening ear. After narrating to him my challenges, he offered to help me,” said Osufuche. The man offered Osufuche a job but did not disclose to him the nature of the job he would do. Inside Magwanja Osufuche’s undertaker job He took him to his house in Juja and fed him, with an optimistic Osufuche anticipating a breakthrough after a bout of hardship in the streets. “The man took me to his nice house, and gave me food to the point I wondered how lucrative the job was given his lifestyle,. I was so happy. He then told me we were going to work, and it was already late into the night. I wondered which kind of job was this,” he said. Fast-forward, he was taken to an unmentioned morgue where he was introduced to the undertaker job. His job description entailed identifying those presumed to be dead but appear to have life in them, then ‘finishing’ them as he put it. “He took me to the reception where details were taken. He then left to go converse with some people around. He then came back and gave me an axe, a big club, a hammer and sword. I was still not aware of the job and I wondered why I would need those items,” he said. They took me inside the mortuary where they explained to me what I would do. I was still not aware of where I was, but I felt I was cold due to the refrigerators around. It then dawned on me that I was in the morgue,” he said. Osufuche: How ghost forced me out of work He blended into the job and hence became a routine to ‘finish’ those who had not died but got themselves into the morgue. Osufuche said he would be paid KSh 400 per day worked. He explained that a person presumed dead would be hit on the back before being stitched. Osufuche said he ‘finished’ over three hundred people for the two years he worked in the morgue. One night, while undertaking his routine, he encountered a ghost who came to where he was. It was of an elderly woman whom he had fatally hit with an axe some time back. “I had gone round with my axe. At around 2:00am, an elderly woman came to my side. I grabbed my axe but I could not manage. She then shook my hand. She reminded me how I hit her with the axe. I realised it was her ghost. I could see her clothes but not her face. She held my hand until 6:00am while talking to me. I left that morning and vowed never to return,” said Osufuche BY TUKO NEWS