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Embakasi gas explosion survivors to wait longer for compensation

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ODM leader Raila Odinga meets with victims of the Embakasi gas explosion at a Social Hall where they've been putting up since the tragedy that had seven people perish. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

Twenty-seven days after the Embakasi gas explosion killed seven people and left more than 200 injured, the government is yet to compensate the survivors.

It now seems the victims may wait longer for compensation after Energy Cabinet Secretary, Davis Chirchir told a joint parliamentary committee probing the gas explosion that the issue was being handled by the National Emergency Response Committee chaired by Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua.

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