Kenyans are saying a final farewell to esteemed opposition leader Raila Odinga, days after several people were killed when mourners gathered to pay their respects in the capital Nairobi.

Odinga, a pro-democracy champion who also served as prime minister from 2008 to 2013, is being buried Sunday at his family’s homestead in western Kenya’s Bondo.

He is to be afforded full military honours alongside traditional rites at the private burial, which follows a funeral mass earlier in the day at a nearby university, according to Kenya’s The Star newspaper.

Thousands of Kenyans and dignitaries from across Africa attended the final interment of a man described as a “selfless pan-Africanist”.

Among those in attendance were Kenya’s President William Ruto, who gave remarks describing Odinga as a

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