Nairobi City County has issued a seven-day notice asking members of the public to identify and collect 59 unclaimed bodies lying at the Mama Lucy Kibaki Funeral Home.

The notice, issued by the county's Health, Wellness and Nutrition department, states that the bodies have remained at the facility from their respective dates of admission while awaiting identification and collection.

The county has published details including the names, ages, genders, admission numbers and locations or facilities from which the bodies were brought to the funeral home.

Most of the bodies are identified as adult men, although the list also includes women and several remains whose identities have not been established.

Several entries are recorded as “Unknown African Man” or similar descriptions, while others have been identified by name.

The county is urging relatives, friends and other members of the public who may have missing family members or acquaintances to check the list and help establish the identities of the remains.

According to the notice, the bodies were admitted between April 2025 and February 2026 and have remained unclaimed since then.

The county has warned that failure to identify and collect the bodies within seven days will result in Nairobi City County seeking authority to dispose of the remains.

The notice cites the Public Health Act, Cap 242, and the Public Health (Public Health Mortuaries) Rules, 1991, as the legal basis for the action.

The latest notice comes shortly after the county issued another public appeal involving hundreds of unclaimed bodies at the Nairobi Funeral Home, formerly known as Nairobi City Mortuary.

On August 11, Nairobi City County gave the public seven days to identify and collect 473 bodies that had remained at the facility from their respective dates of admission.

The county similarly warned that it would seek disposal authority if the bodies were not claimed within the stipulated period.

The list for the Nairobi Funeral Home was dated March 18, 2026, and contained a total of 473 bodies.

The problem extends beyond Nairobi City County facilities. In March, Kenyatta National Hospital issued a notice concerning 480 unclaimed bodies at its Farewell Home.

KNH said the remains comprised 102 adults and 378 children and warned that it would seek court authority to dispose of them if they were not identified and collected within seven days.

The repeated notices point to a persistent challenge facing public mortuaries in Kenya, where bodies can remain for months when families cannot be traced, identification is difficult or relatives are unaware of where their loved ones were taken.

For families with missing relatives, the latest Mama Lucy notice provides an opportunity to check the county's records before authorities begin the process of seeking disposal permission.