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State sued over Sh20bn owed to dead, injured teachers, police
The petitioner is seeking declarations that the arrangements are unconstitutional, payment of outstanding claims, forensic audits and accountability orders against public officials.
The government has been sued over more than Sh20 billion in unpaid insurance benefits allegedly owed to families of deceased or disabled public servants, including teachers and police officers.
A petition filed at the High Court in Nairobi by John Gitonga claims successive administrations failed to provide mandatory insurance cover and settle death, disability and work injury claims for hundreds of thousands of civil servants, denying beneficiaries entitlements guaranteed by law.
