Veteran politician Kenneth Matiba has been awarded Sh. 504 million by a Nairobi court for his detention.
Although the 85-year-old former Kiharu MP will not regain his health, Justice Isaac Lenaola said, the award should act as a reminder of the dark days of the Nyayo era.
In his ruling, Justice Lenaola, now a judge of the Supreme Court, noted that Mr Matiba suffered a stroke on May 26, 1991 but remained in detention without medication for a week.
But he ruled that the State foots only 20 per cent of the Sh4,726,332,042 Mr Matiba had sought for losses after his business crumbled.
Justice Lenaola said real justice can be expensive and the compensation is a lesson that such injustice should not be visited upon anyone.
“Without him at the helm, the businesses deteriorated and some of them collapsed,” noted Justice Lenaola.
The judge awarded Mr Matiba Sh15 million as damages and for violations suffered, Sh18,146,631 for medical expenses and 471,664,258 for the financial losses incurred.
Halleluha
He deserve the award even though he has already lost so much. May that done never be done to another human