High Court awards Uganda, Rwandese firms Sh6.3b for poll chaos losses

Police quell protests during the 2007/08 post election violence. [File, Standard]

The High Court has slapped the Government with Sh6.3 billion bill for goods of foreign firms that were destroyed in the 2007/08 post-election violence.

In the largest award for post-election violence cases, Justice Mbogholi Msagha ordered the Government to pay 16 Ugandan and Rwandan firms for the losses they incurred.