President Uhuru Kenyatta on Sunday visited former opposition leader and presidential candidate Kenneth Matiba in a hospital in Nairobi.
Through his social media account, the president disclosed that he was paying a courtesy call to Mr Matiba who was recovering his health following an illness.
"Visited my friend Kenneth Matiba, former Minister, who is convalescing at a Nairobi hospital. May God heal you, my friend," he wrote on Sunday.
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Earlier in September, a court ordered the government to compensate the former presidential candidate with Sh945 Million for detention and torture in 1990.
Initially, reports indicated that he had been awarded Sh504 Million as settlement for a case against the Government of Kenya.
However, it emerged that there was an error in the calculation and the former popular Minister should be given Sh945 Milion.
In the case, Matiba was able to prove that he suffered a debilitating stroke that confined him to a wheelchair as a result of the detention.
Matiba had initially sought Sh12 Billion as compensation claiming that he incurred a Sh9.1 Million cost in managing his condition.
The former detainee went to court in 2015 arguing that he suffered a serious stroke on May 26, 1991 but remained in detention without medication for one week.
On Saturday, the president joined the families of Alfrida Jelagat and Joel Sande to witness their wedding ceremony at Holy Trinity Church, Kileleshwa.
He wished them joy, peace and God's blessing in their marriage.
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