Owino Uhuru residents expect state to implement Sh1.3 billion judgment

For the impoverished residents of Owino Uhuru slums in Jomvu constituency, Mombasa, Thursday’s landmark ruling that awarded them Sh1.3 billion stirred mixed emotions.

Their jubilation was marred by the fact that the abandoned shell of a battery-recycling plant that poisoned their environment, leaving some of them scarred for life, still stands in their midst.