{"id":19404,"date":"2021-09-23T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T10:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2021\/09\/23\/more-than-a-decade-later-kenya-lead-poisoning-victims-still-waiting-for-compensation\/"},"modified":"2021-09-23T12:00:36","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T10:00:36","slug":"more-than-a-decade-later-kenya-lead-poisoning-victims-still-waiting-for-compensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2021\/09\/23\/more-than-a-decade-later-kenya-lead-poisoning-victims-still-waiting-for-compensation\/","title":{"rendered":"More than a decade later, Kenya lead poisoning victims still waiting for compensation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Kenyan environmental activist and whistleblower Phyllis Omido discovered in 2009 that the smelting plant where she worked was poisoning the community with lead \u2013 including her infant son. She spearheaded an effort to get the plant shut down and won the community an unprecedented $12 million settlement. But state agencies are appealing the case and more than a decade after the poisoning was discovered, the victims have still received no compensation. Many in Mombasa&rsquo;s poor\u00a0Owino Uhuru neighbourhood\u00a0are suffering from long-term effects like kidney and liver failure, with no money to pay for medical care. Omido joined us for Perspective.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenyan environmental activist and whistleblower Phyllis Omido discovered in 2009 that the smelting plant where she worked was poisoning the community with lead \u2013 including her infant son. She spearheaded an effort to get the plant shut down and won the community an unprecedented $12 million settlement. But state agencies are appealing the case and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-19404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}