Grass To Grace And Back To Grass: How Samburu Millionaires Plunged Back To Poverty
Today The Daily Nation Newspaper revealed about the life of a Kenyan community that received Compensation from British Government over explosives that hit them back in the 1990s. The Samburu Community that hails from Laikipia plains were faced with some explosives that left many dead while others disabled for the rest of their lives.
Later on in 2003 A British lawyer called Martyn Day came to the rescue of the affected people and with his law firm he threatened to sue the British Government over the death and amputation of the 1300 affected persons. The British government defended itself that it was not involved in the bad Odell a move that made The Lawyer to travel to Kenya in 2003 and collected enough evidence to charge the Government.
The British Government learned of the enough evidence collected against them and moved fast to stop the Lawyer from going to court and it released $4.5 million to those affected which was 450 million Kenyan shillings. The money was to be shared among those affected and those who had lost their loved ones. An individual would be compensated upto 23 million and the least of all received ksh. 50,000. The "overnight" Millionaires were shocked and over excited over the millions they received and many were quick to misuse the funds they received as they had not received such an amount before.
One Person Gabriel Lengishili received ksh. 11 million as compensation for loosing family members and loosing some of his body parts. The man who was so happy and confused at the same time was fast to spend his money by buying a Land Rover Vehicle and married three more wives. The man as I report is very poor with no evidence of how he used his millions. The man recalls buying a house which he later sold and remained poor.
The poor man is now a mkono man in Samburu after loosing his millions and poor. He can not explain his millions and is so depressed. It will be remembered that the Lawyer Martyn Day tried to advice the beneficiaries to spend their money wisely by investing but as soon as he went back to London the "overnight" Millionaires misused their millions and are now languishing in poverty
It is said that a total of 1300 people were either killed or left disabled due to the live bombs that were left behind by the British Army that was training in the Laikipia plains back in the days. According to the report, a total of 560 people many to whom were children lost their lives. Many families were left deverstated and some lost their family members and bread winners.
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