 However, Wambui and Otieno had defeated such a claim by registering as many assets as possible in their joint names.. She also claimed in court that the Umira Kager clan wished her to enter into a levirate marriage with either Otieno's brother Joash Ochieng Ougo or some other clan member, as the clan would not allow Wambui to “walk away to her Kikuyu people with Otieno's property".However, she could not show that any compulsion had been involved.In the 1980s, most Luo considered land as a permanent asset of the lineage, and burying its members on this land symbolises the right of the lineage to retain it.