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…Her disabilities were nothing exceptional and that while she was deserving of a generous award, an award of Kshs 910,000 is by any standards known to us in Kenya out of keeping with awards for comparable injuries.…

…Inamdar relied is Zablon Mariga v Musila, C A No 166 of 1982 for the proposition that severe injuries are bound to have severe consequences and that awards in such cases do provide for resultant disabilities.…

…I agree that Kshs 475,000 is the right figure to be substituted for it, remembering that no money award can ever compensate the appellant for his tragic disability.…

…On the issue of limitation he submitted that the appellant's husband having deponed in an affidavit in support of his application for leave that he became aware of the fact of his accident in 1986 any disability he may have…

…In my view the arguments based on the respondent’s disability, and so much harped upon by the Election Court judges, disappear into nothingness in face of this authority which, Mr Inamdar very rightly surmised, supported…