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@mosimiyu @KEPSA_KENYA @KuiKariukiC @LawSocietyofKe @katibainstitute @AIGinsurance Thanks

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@KEPSA_KENYA, @KuiKariukiC, @LawSocietyofKe @katibainstitute
, @AIGinsurance
THREAD: I have carried this pain quietly for 7 years. Today I speak.
In 2018 while on official duty to Naivasha on behalf of KEPSA CEO , I was involved in an accident that permanently changed my life.

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@KEPSA_KENYA @KuiKariukiC @LawSocietyofKe @katibainstitute @AIGinsurance I seek accountability, medical justice, dignity not sympathy. No worker should be abandoned with injuries sustained while on duty. I still believe institutions can choose humanity over silence. I hope someone finally listens @KEPSA_KENYA @ntvkenya @citizentvkenya @WorldBankKenya

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Beyond me, this is about whether Kenyan workers matter after they are injured while serving institutions @COTU_K, @btskenyaarmy @KEPSA_KENYA

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@KEPSA_KENYA @KuiKariukiC @LawSocietyofKe @katibainstitute @AIGinsurance I am asking its leadership, board, members, development partners and corporate allies to live by those same principles when an employee becomes medically vulnerable. Ethical leadership and protection of livelihoods @KEPSA_KENYA @katibainstitute

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@KEPSA_KENYA @KuiKariukiC @LawSocietyofKe @katibainstitute @AIGinsurance @KEPSA_KENYA stands on pillars of sustainability, inclusion, claims to support differently able people, justice but look in the mirror @katibainstitute @KEPSA_KENYA @KuiKariukiC @WorldBankKenya @DFID_UK

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@KEPSA_KENYA @KuiKariukiC @LawSocietyofKe @katibainstitute @AIGinsurance KEPSA says Insurance has refused to pay. Insurance exists to provide protection and liquidity during moments like these. Instead, I have spent years knocking on doors while my health declines to low back degeneration @KEPSA_KENYA @AIGinsurance DOSHI..

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@KEPSA_KENYA @KuiKariukiC @LawSocietyofKe @katibainstitute @AIGinsurance But orders without enforcement leave injured workers stranded when powerful institutions resist accountability. Further, there is criminal culpability. @Kenyajudiciary @DCI_Kenya

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@KEPSA_KENYA @KuiKariukiC @LawSocietyofKe @katibainstitute @AIGinsurance The directorate of occupational health has maintained that I should receive medical care and compensation under the WIBA Act, including reimbursement for expenses incurred. @KuiKariukiC @AIGinsurance @DFID_UK @americancha @WorldBankKenya

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@KEPSA_KENYA @KuiKariukiC @LawSocietyofKe @katibainstitute @AIGinsurance The explanation shifted repeatedly: first a “misdiagnosis,” then prior coccydynia, endometriosis, then aspersions on my character from an unrelated indictment as if indictees can't have accidents. Bt prior pain is not the same as a fractured coccyx caused by a documented accident

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@KEPSA_KENYA @KuiKariukiC @LawSocietyofKe @katibainstitute @AIGinsurance My surgeon, assessed me with permanent incapacity with general well progression. Yet attempts continued to separate my condition from the workplace accident @KuiKariukiC @KEPSA_KENYA

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@KEPSA_KENYA @KuiKariukiC @LawSocietyofKe @katibainstitute @AIGinsurance I never had a fractured coccyx before this accident @KuiKariukiC

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@KEPSA_KENYA @KuiKariukiC @LawSocietyofKe @katibainstitute @AIGinsurance Meanwhile there was no goodwill at work and was expected at my desk asap after surgery. Yet I now live with chronic pain. I cannot sit beyond 2 hours comfortably. Standing long or waiting in lines has become difficult. I am deteriorating in my mid 40s @KEPSA_KENYA @KuiKariukiC

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@KEPSA_KENYA @KuiKariukiC @LawSocietyofKe @katibainstitute @AIGinsurance 3 months later I underwent surgery, a coccygectomy, and a few sessions of physiotherapy and pain management. I survived largely through personal sacrifice and support from people who know me @AKUHNairobi @KEPSA_KENYA

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@KEPSA_KENYA @KuiKariukiC @LawSocietyofKe @katibainstitute @AIGinsurance I had suffered Coccydynia and endometriosis before which were also used against me in this matter where I broke my coccyx @KmpdcOfficial @CEOTNH @KEPSA_KENYA

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@KEPSA_KENYA @KuiKariukiC @LawSocietyofKe @katibainstitute @AIGinsurance Back to Nairobi at night I chose to buy painkillers and get Medicare next day. Early imaging and diagnosis evolved as further radiology and specialist reviews were done. That is normal in trauma care. Yet this was later used against me @KEPSA_KENYA @AIGinsurance .

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@KEPSA_KENYA @KuiKariukiC @LawSocietyofKe @katibainstitute @AIGinsurance I was in pain after but more of shock from the overturned Pewan cab. The matter was reported to the police and the documents exist. Similarly to my head HR. We spent the day at th police station with the driver @KenyasOmbudsman @DCI_Kenya @KEPSA_KENYA

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@KEPSA_KENYA @KuiKariukiC @LawSocietyofKe @katibainstitute @AIGinsurance What followed was years of pain, treatment and survival owing to this injury to a @KenyaGovernors in Sewala Naivasha on 2 Oct 2018 @WorldBankKenya @denmarkdotdk @DanishMFA @DFID_UK

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@osemagnum We have been gaslit, and made to think the pain is imagined. As a patient I say thank you

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@osemagnum Endometriosis is a monster that knows no bounds