British High commissioner to Kenya Christian Turner (left) and Mau Mau War Veterans Association secretary general Gitu wa Kahengeri (centre) and Kibuuru Mburugu Marete (right) on June 6, 2013 at the Hilton Hotel, Nairobi when the UK offered Mau Mau war veterans a sum of Sh2.6 billion as compensation. PHOTO | JENNIFER MUIRURI | NATION MEDIA GROUP
Thursday, Tandem Law’s lead solicitor Freddie Cosgrove-Gibson and Kenyan representative Cecil Miller addressed a press conference in Nairobi where they explained how the registration of claims from victims of the colonial atrocities would be done.
Qualifications for claims include proof of having suffered mistreatment during the same period and that the mistreatment must have been inflicted by or on behalf of the State, whether British or Kenyan.
Fresh claims against the British Government for atrocities committed during the colonial period have started to be registered.
The claims target 8,000 Mau Mau veterans excluded from last June’s Sh2.6 billion payout.
