The High Court has ordered the government to reserve Sh105 million from the compensation fund for victims of enforced disappearances, torture, and abductions until it determines a petition contesting their exclusion from the programme. In an order issued on Tuesday, August 11, Justice Gregory Mutai said the petitioners had raised serious constitutional questions regarding the process used to verify which victims qualified for compensation. Gideon Kibet, Ronny Kiplangat, and eight others sued the State to challenge what they described as the unlawful exclusion of 35 verified victims of enforced disappearance from a government compensation programme. The case grew out of the state’s compensation and reparation programme for victims of human rights violations. The programme followed the appointment of a panel of experts and subsequent presidential proclamations on how victims would be processed.