Kenya Power’s bid to overturn Sh22m child electrocution award flops

Kenya Power workers. FILE PHOTO | NMG

Kenya Power #ticker:KPLC has lost a bid to overturn a Sh22 million compensation awarded to a teenager whose both hands were amputated after touching live electricity wires four years ago.

A bench of three judges of the Court of Appeal dismissed the utility firms’s appeal saying given the child’s condition after the injuries, there cannot be an issue of unjust enrichment or over compensation.

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