The Appellate Court has awarded a former Kenya Air Force officer Sh20 million as compensation for unlawful detention and torture over the 1982 attempted coup. The court dismissed an appeal by the government and ordered it to pay Francis Matu.
Justices Francis Tuiyot, Aggrey Muchelule and George Odunga, while dismissing the appeal noted that the Sh3 million award to Matu by the Employment and Labour Relations court in October 2018 was inordinately low.
They noted that the trial court failed to consider the unlawful and early termination of Matu's service in computing the damages. "We have to interfere with the court's discretion.
In our considered view, the award of Sh3 million was inordinately low.
