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Pensioner's 30-year vain wait for Sh74,000

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Hannington Owaka Okolo filed a case in 1993 and was awarded Sh74,921.75. [iStockphoto]

If judges were gods, perhaps Justice Roselyn Aburili in wrath would have directed thunder to strike the director of pensions. She said the office appears cursed.

Nevertheless, the judge ordered the pensions boss to appear before the court on January 30 for mitigation and sentencing in a sad story of an 82-year-old pensioner who sought her help after being denied his heyday savings.

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