A family in Kenya has won a case against their daughter’s former primary school-Loreto Convent Msongari- following a tragic accident that left her with scars nine years later.
Last year, a former Loreto Convent Msongari pupil narrated how she and her schoolmates were involved in a road accident six years ago.
Ms Madikizela Otieno, a law student at the University of Nottingham in the UK, said she was dropped off at school in the morning on July 29, 2011, by her mother for a Standard 7 and 8 trip.
Ms Otieno, 19, told Mr Justice Richard Mwongo that her schoolmates asked the headmistress whether they could use two buses.
But the headteacher, who was also on the trip, insisted on using one, which was overcrowded.
ACCIDENT
The first-year university student said the pupils visited two factories in Meru County and were proceeding with their journey when the accident occurred in Buuri Sub-County at 6 pm.
According to a report by Daily Nation on Sunday, May 24, the High Court ordered Loreto Msongari to pay the former pupil, Madikizela Otieno, Ksh29 million for the accident that occurred in 2011 during a school trip.
In her ruling, Justice Lucy Njuguna awarded the compensation to the student to cover her past and future medical expenses noting that she would have to live with the scars inflicted on her by the accident.
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