Terrain Hotel petitions military court over compensation delays for July 2016 attack

The management of Terrain Hotel has petitioned the army court-martial seeking payment of damages for an attack by soldiers on the hotel in July 2016. 

A lawyer representing Terrain, Philip Sinyango Ngong, filed the petition this morning, appealing to the military court to compel the Ministry of Defence to pay the two million US dollars that was awarded by the court last September. 

Ngong says his clients have not received any payment five months after the ruling. 

The sitting judge, Brig Gen Knight Briano in September ordered the government through the Ministry of Defence to pay Terrain Hotel two million US dollars in damages and four thousand dollars ($4,000) to each of five rape victims, one thousand ($1,000) dollars to an aid worker who was shot in the leg and 51 cattle to the family of the journalist who was killed.

Philip Sinyango Ngong said the other victims have also not received their compensation.

He spoke to George Livio in this interview.