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Kenya Power retiree’s painful 10-year wait for compensation after ruinous accident

Kenya: More than 10 years ago, Kenya Power—then called the Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC) — pledged to compensate Apolo Ayuku Lisutsa, a former employee who suffered severe injuries in the line of duty.

The 64-year-old father of six from Shinyalu Constituency, Kakamega County, accidentally fell from an electricity post right into an eight-feet ditch in an incident that left him paralysed to date. His nervous system, back and spinal cord were also affected.

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