The late socialite Moana born Michelle Amuli’s mother Yolanda Kuvaoga has suffered a major blow in her bid to take full control of her daughters’s burial after the High Court ruled against her application to have the burial order cancelled.

In his ruling Justice Kwenda said there was no basis to cancel the order granted by an administrative office.

Kuvaoga approached the High Court to have the burial order after quarrelling with her ex-husband Ishmael Amuli over the funeral programme.

Kuvaoga argued that allowing Moana to be buried through the Islamic rites would deprive her as the mother an opportunity to bury her daughter since women are not allowed at the graveyard.

She also argued that her daughter had ceased to follow the Islamic religion as confirmed by the secular life she was living during her last days.

Kuvaoga also wanted the public who followed her to have a chance to bid her farewell, something she said would not be possible should she be buried in the way demanded by her father.