"Bamburi Cement ex-employee awarded Ksh.7.9M compensation"

A welder who allegedly lost his hearing ability while working at the Bamburi Cement factory has been awarded Ksh.7.9 million as compensation. Morowa Fumwo told the court that prior to his employment at the cement manufacturing firm he was of good health but developed complications later. He had accused the company of failing to provide him with protective hearing gears leading to the loss of hearing...

The court noted that there was no conclusive evidence that the condition pre-existed, adding that it was similarly improbable that the claimant just developed the hearing problem in his first year of employment. “All that can be concluded, in the first report of Dr. Muoki is that the claimant was fit to join Bamburi Factory. His ears were either found to have no appreciable disease, or were not examined altogether. The claimant’s complaints soon after employment may point to the onset of his hearing problem, or it could also have been that the problem was not detected by Dr. Muoki,” the court ruled.