UK agrees to pay Kenyans affected by Lolldaiga fire
The British government agreed to pay compensation to thousands of Kenalians who were affected by a fire caused by an British military training exercise four years ago.
The out -of -court settlement follows a long legal war, which the plaintiff said that they lost property due to the 2021 fire in Lolddaiga Protection in the Rift Valley of Kenya and that they were exposed to health complications.
The British Supreme Commission spokesman in Nairobi said that the fire was “extremely sad” and that Britain dedicated “important time, effort and resource” to solve the allegations.
The British government did not confirm how much it was paid, but the lawyer in the trial told the BBC that it was $ 2.9 million.
Kevin Kubai called the “best possible result” despite the complaints that he was very small to compensate for the losses of the amounts they received from their customers.
The authority said that the alternative would be to continue the case for about seven years in order to prove these cases on case analysis “.
Mr. Kubai admitted that his customers did not have medical records that support health damage allegations due to the breathing of Lolldaiga fire and were exposed to smoke because they used wood to cook.
The British Ministry of Defense said it was caused by a camp stove that took over during the conservative training exercise in 2022. He found that about 7,000 acres of private land was damaged, but no community land was directly affected.
Legal procedure argued that there was environmental damage in the surrounding communities due to smoke and the destruction of the property due to the stigmatization of wild animals.
The British government helped to protect with the restoration of the burned region, and there are still military exercises.
Approximately 49,000 acres of bruise areas, a floor of the ice -covered Kenya Mountain – are part of the Laikipia plateau, where hundreds of thousands of acres were seized by the British during the colonial period.
The Prince of Wales was only 70km (45 miles) than Lewa Protection, which was proposed to Kate Middleton in November 2010.
A few kilometers in the south, a new renewed Nyati Barracks, a 70 million pound facility, a part of the British army educational unit Kenya (Batuk).
Every year, it is home to thousands of British soldiers for large exercises in places like Lolldaiga, which offers ideal conditions for harsh environment education.
Batuk contributes to tens of millions of pounds to the Kenya economy every year.
However, over the years, discussions surrounding the behavior of some soldiers, deadly shots and fugitives, Kenya women, including the allegations of murder and sexual exploitation attracted the attention of the media.
