Duncan Mureithi, who lost his hands and legs in a train accident in Thika when he was just ten years old, now lives in pain and dependence.
Mureithi obtained KSh 18 million in compensation from Kenya Railways in 2004 as a result of the disaster, but he and his mother only received KSh 840,000.
Mureithi said that his father spent KSh nine million before getting sick and passing away while his attorney, Wanja Grace Wambogo, kept the rest.
According to a previous NTV story, Grace was given the money after the family filed a complaint against her with the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) advocates disciplinary committee.
However, the attorney successfully appealed the family payment order to the Supreme Court.
However, the lawyer appealed the family’s payment judgment to the high court, where he was successful in getting an order overturning the LSK tribunal’s decision.
By failing to show up in court for the decision that allowed the attorney to keep the money, the LSK let down the family.
“I have suffered because I can not do anything for myself. Everything is done for me,” he said in the report by NTV.
“I just want help to get back the money so I can buy a new wheelchair and get artificial hands and legs,” added the young man.
After failing to obtain the remaining funds from their attorney due to his mother’s passing in 2021, he gave up trying to find the attorney.
Speaking to Linda Shiundu of TUKO.co.ke, Mureithi is asking for assistance in starting a business because he now wants to provide for himself and support his brothers who take care of him.
Mureithi, 34, is begging with kind Kenyans to assist him in purchasing prosthetic hands and legs as well as a wheelchair to improve his mobility in addition to that prayer.
“Right now, I live with my brother in Thika. I just want someone to help me buy a wheelchair and plastic legs and hands,” said Mureithi.
” I would also like to start any business for myself. Any business will be okay but I am more flexible with poultry business,” he added.
The young guy claimed that after their father passed away and some of the settlement money was lost, he and his two brothers were driven off their father’s property in Matuu, Machakos county.
“We used to stay in Matuu, when my father passed after spending the money, his brothers chased us away from there,” he said.
“When the court ordred I be given KSh 18 million, we were first given KSh 5.3 million and the lawyer took it all then my father asked for another money and he was given KSh 9 million,” Mureithi added.
His elder brother now relies on side jobs to support Mureithi and his younger brother after being forced to abandon his full-time work to care for him.
