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The UK government has agreed to pay compensation to the thousands of Kenyans affected by a fire caused by British military training four years ago.
Outside the judicial settlement, a long legal battle steming, in which 7,723 applicants said they had lost their property and suffered complications in the field of health due to the 2021 fire in the LOLLDAIGA Valley in Kenya.
A press secretary of the UK Verkhovna Commission in Nairobi stated that the fire was “very sorry” and that the UK devoted “a considerable time, effort and resources” to resolve the requirements.
The British government did not confirm how much it was paid, but the BBC lawyer said it was 2.9 million pounds.
Kevin Cuba called it a “best possible result” despite the complaints of their customers that they received were too small to compensate for their losses.
He said the alternative “would continue the lawsuits for almost seven years to be able to prove these cases on the analysis of the case”, which would be difficult because most of the evidence was lost four years later.
Mr. Cuba acknowledged that his clients did not have medical documents that reinforce their health requirements from the inhalation of smoke from the Lolldaiga fire, and that they were also under smoke because they used cake for cooking.
In 2022, the UK Ministry of Defense stated that the fire was probably caused by a camp furnace, overturned during training. It turned out that about 7,000 hectares of private land were damaged, but they were not injured, but they were not injured on the ground.
Legal actions claimed that the environment was damaged by the environment from the smoke and the destruction of property from the stamp of wild animals.
The British government helped preservation in the restoration of the burnt area and military exercises still go there.
Lolldaiga preservation – about 49,000 hectares of hillbed bushland with the background of the ice mountain of Kenya – part of the Laikipi Plato, where the British were confiscated hundreds of thousands of hectares during the colonial era, which led to land disputes that continue on this day.
This is only 70 km (45 miles) from the Lewa preservation, where in November 2010, Prince Wales suggested Kate Middleton.
A few kilometers south-not-not-not-waste Nyati barracks, an object of £ 70 million, which is part of the British Army of Kenya (Batuk).
Thousands of British troops for mass exercises such as Lolldaiga, which offers ideal conditions for tight environmental training, conducts annually.
Batuk brings tens of millions of pounds to Kenya’s economy annually.
But over the years, disputes related to the behavior of some soldiers have attracted the attention of the media, including charges of death, murder and sexual exploitation of Kenyan women.
