Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, under the management of Lucy Ndirangu, Mike Watson, the chief executive officer, and ICEA Lion officials led by Mr Sammy Gatuthi and Samuel Ng’ang’a, are on the spot for teaming up to deny a female employee her compensation rights after she suffered a deadly accident during a team-building activity a few years ago.
Sources from Lewa told our investigative team that most employees, especially Africans, have been fired and have left the company in a sad and bad state.
In a shocking turn of events, the woman (PM) was fired and left on her own after working with Lewa for over 15 years.
She is currently in dire need of assistance to get her Sh 5 million compensation fees that she believes will partly help her salvage her life back to a bit of normalcy.
In a dramatic turn of events, the ICEA Lion insurance group has worsened her situation by rubber-stamping Lewa’s evil decision to frustrate her by filing an objection to the suit she has filed in court against Lewa.
” I have been working with Lewa to date. I am telling you that what they did to PM was so unfortunate. I know her personally, and she is going through a lot. I urge the government to take over the matter and help her get justice. I will be petitioning some government officials in the coming days on the same,” an employee told us.
According to various documents we obtained from the environment and labor relations court, things went wrong in her life after her involvement in the said unfortunate accident.
Our efforts to get PM on the phone for a comment were not successful, and her lawyer told us that he, too, was unable to comment on the matter that was still active in court.
The court papers show that PM was employed by Lewa in 2001, and on September 26, 2019, while participating in a work-related team-building activity, she fell and suffered some serious injuries.
She suffered for many years and later visited various hospitals as she sought treatment.
On August 2, 2023, and August 15, 2023, she visited a certain facility where a medic identified her, examined her, and found out the main ailments that resulted from the said accident.
” The medic found that PM injuries were permanent and her cerebellum of the brain was affected, which has resulted in her frequent headaches, dizziness, and visual disturbances that she frequently suffers from; her right leg was completely injured, among other disorders.” The court heard.
She has been moving in and out of different medical facilities to seek medical assistance, but she has yet to get back to normalcy.
Today, PM can do nothing, and she is immobile, as the company that she genuinely worked for refuses to compensate her.
The ICEA lion, in a strange move, has filed an objection in court to the suit that she has filed in court to seek compensation, although it’s not a party in the case.
The PM has told the court to dismiss the ICEA Lion objection, terming it ill-advised and exploitative with bad intentions.
Our investigative team, along with other media houses, will be following up on the matter on February 13th for further publications
