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Lyndah Kebati: Why she confronted relatives at dad’s burial and vowed never to forgive them
18th September, 2026 11:38 PM
Kenyan content creator and model Lyndah Kebati turned her father, Bosco Kebati’s, burial into an emotional family confrontation after publicly confronting his relatives and declaring that she would never forgive them.
The dramatic scenes unfolded on Wednesday, September 16, 2026, during the burial of Bosco Kebati at the family’s ancestral home in Mwabosire, Nyamira County, where Lyndah took the microphone during the funeral and directly addressed members of her father’s family.
Lyndah, popularly known online as Thee Lovechild, accused her father’s relatives of sidelining her mother, Angelica Akinyi, and their side of the family during the funeral arrangements, saying they had been excluded from several important moments surrounding Bosco’s final farewell.
Her emotional address quickly spread online after videos from the burial showed her standing before mourners and confronting the relatives she said had failed to treat her family as part of Bosco’s family.
Lyndah questioned calls for peace at the funeral, saying she could not understand why she was expected to remain silent after what she described as years of exclusion.
“Angelica Akinyi, that is my mom, and we lived with my dad before he died. So I do not know why you are telling people that everyone should come with our peace. What peace have people come here with?” Lyndah said.
She then turned her attention to the wider family, questioning why her mother and their side had not been properly involved in the funeral preparations.
“The second family was never included. How can you expect me to keep quiet while I speak? This is my father, and if that man is your father, come and stand here,” she said.
According to Lyndah, the tension did not begin at the burial but had been building during the period leading to Bosco’s final send-off.
She said her mother and their side of the family had been excluded from important parts of the funeral process and that she had been denied an opportunity to participate in the farewell she believed she deserved as Bosco’s daughter.
In a subsequent statement shared after the burial, Lyndah explained that her anger was not about the number of relatives who attended the funeral but about being denied opportunities to honour her father.
“I am not angry because people did not show up for me. I am angry because I was denied the opportunity to show up for my own father,” she said.
Lyndah went on to list what she said were the most painful exclusions.
“I was denied access to see his body in the morgue, denied a place in his funeral arrangements, left out of his eulogy and denied the opportunity to lower my own father into the ground,” she said.
She said the experience had taken away moments that she believed she should have shared with her father during his final farewell.
“They took away moments I can never get back. Moments that belonged to me, moments that belonged to my family and moments that belonged to our father. I will never be okay with that,” she said.
Father’s baptismal name
One of the details that particularly troubled Lyndah was the information contained in the funeral programme and eulogy.
She told mourners that she did not even know the name her father had been baptised with, which she attributed to the lack of involvement of her side of the family in the funeral arrangements.
“So to you, Baba, Bosco Atinda Kebati. I do not know the name that you were baptised with because they never included us. Even in the entire process of us organising this thing, the second family was never included,” she said.
The revelation added another emotional dimension to her speech, as Lyndah questioned how her family could be expected to remain silent during a ceremony for a man she said had been part of their lives for years.
Cutting ties
As emotions continued rising, Lyndah made it clear that she had no intention of maintaining a relationship with the relatives she was addressing.
“I cannot pretend that I love you. I will never forgive you, and we will never be family again,” she said.
She went further, telling the gathering that Bosco’s death marked the end of her connection to the homestead and the relatives she had confronted.
“Since my father has rested, we will never be a family again with your relatives. I hate you,” she said.
Her words left mourners visibly uncomfortable as the emotional address became increasingly tense.
Lyndah also said she felt a sense of release at being able to walk away from the homestead without having to maintain what she regarded as a false sense of family unity.
“I am glad my father has died because I can finally walk away from this homestead without pretending that we are family,” she said.
The speech eventually caused tension at the podium, with attempts made to bring the address to an end as the atmosphere became increasingly uncomfortable.
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