72-Yr-Old Kenyan Bomblast Victim Appeals to Trump After 27-Year Struggle

Even before settling into office after having been elected in November this year, the United States of America (USA) President-elect Donald Trump now faces a list of key demands from Kenyan victims of the 1998 bomb blast.

Among them is a 72-year-old Kenyan George Nginge who, at the time of the incident, was only 45 years old and has been facing multiple challenges in terms of pushing for compensation from the American Government.

Speaking in Nairobi on Tuesday, December 3, Nginge led a caucus representing the victims and urged Trump to look into their compensation after years of unsuccessfully lobbying.

Ngige suffered critical injuries during the incident including losing his ability to walk without crutches and his genitals were immensely affected. He therefore appealed to Trump to think of them, especially on his globalist policy of making America great again. 

“We want to ask President-elect Donald Trump to think about the American friends who were injured in the bombing incident, he can ask Congress to think about the issue of compensation to Kenyan friends,” Ngige urged.

”We have even been forced now to lobby Kituo cha Sheria to represent us in court over the same. At the time of the incident, I was 45 and I lost all that I had including my manhood,” Ngige added.

According to the victims, for the past 27 years, they have had to live in pain and constant worry trying to push for their compensation with no success.

The victims also blamed the Government of Kenya for doing so little to push for compensation for the injuries sustained during the blast.

Nginge revealed that their attempts to access government offices have only been met with sympathies after which they are turned away with no help.

”We have tried for years to move from office to office including that of the President. Finally, the American Embassy told us that the problem is with our government,” he revealed.

Their plights come 27 years after they suffered injuries following a bombing incident that happened at the American Embassy in Nairobi on Haile Selassie Avenue.

The incident left many of the victims with injuries while over 200 people lost their lives.

The issue of compensation has been a contentious one with key legal discussions going through the US Congress towards the compensation of the bombing victims in Kenya and Tanzania.