How torture and detention cost taxpayers billions

Kenneth Matiba and his wife Edith in hospital after he was released from detention JUNE 199.[FILE] 

Kenya’s flawed security and justice system is costing taxpayers billions of shillings in compensation for unlawful detentions and torture, raising concerns over accountability and systemic failures.

On August 16, 2017, the appellate court awarded Kenneth Matiba a whopping Sh504,810,889 for torture, cruel and inhuman treatment, medical expenses, and compensation for financial losses occasioned by the collapse of his business and financial ventures.

Justices Isaac Lenaola and Chacha Mwita stated that real justice can be expensive and that no amount of compensation could restore Matiba to the agile and fit man he was before his detention and stroke.