Won't pay, can't pay: State owes Engineer Litondo Sh600m 37 years later

Engineering consultant, John Morrison Litondo during an interview with The Standard at his offices, on May 11, 2021. The engineer who was credited for structural designing of Halal Meat Products, together with the owner Ali Motha who is now elderly and sick wants the government to pay them 4.4 billion, and 660 million respectively, compensation claims which were awarded by the courts sitting in Eldoret and Kisumu way back in the 1980s and 1994. He adds that numerous efforts from them seeking the settlement of the claims have borne no fruit as the government has kept no word out of it since then. [Samson wire. standard].

An engineer behind the establishment of the first private slaughterhouse is yet to be paid Sh600 million compensation 37 years after the government killed his dream venture.

Engineer John Morrison Litondo started as a newspaper proofreader but quit to pursue a career in engineering.