14 Riverside business complex is set to get a Sh400 million insurance payout for losses incurred in the January 15 terror attack that left several dead.
According to reports, the compensation will cover property damage and loss of earnings for the entire 14 Riverside shopping complex, including the DusitD2 Hotel.
The high-end business complex had taken a terrorist attack cover with GA Insurance.
“We also cover loss of profit, and sometimes profit loss is bigger than your material damage loss,” said GA Insurance chief executive Vijay Srivastava in an interview.
“Physical loss may not be that big, but then after closure of the hotel for six, nine or more months – we don’t know yet – that will add to the amount of loss because we had also covered against loss of profit.”
Construction workers put the final touches of repair, a sign that the hotel’s management was ready to rise from the ashes and re-open for business.
After the terrible January 15 Al-Shabaab attack that killed 21 people and left many nursing gunshot wounds the scene is now in peace and tranquility.
Security barrier boulders have now been installed near the building’s entry, providing an impenetrable so as to prevent vehicles from approaching the compound at high speeds and to help protect the complex against an attack by suicide bombers.
The complex has also adopted additional multiple layers of security details.
Already, some businesses have resumed operations in the six buildings that housed about 40 local and international companies.
According to Business Daily signs of normal life at the complex began to return as early as Monday, when company executives and workers at the complex began the long journey back to normalcy.
Two weeks ago, Dusit D2 which was massively destroyed as a result of a grenade attack that was detonated in it has been undergoing maintenance to make it habitable once more.
Dusit has announced that they are hiring staff. They want housekeepers, chefs, Bartenders and waitresses.
The vacancy announcement signals a new beginning of the shattered glass panes and strewn cutlery that characterized the fateful January attack where 21 lives were lost.
The hotel staff killed in the incident were Beatrice Mutua, Bernadette Konjaio, Erickson Mogaka, Trufosa Nyaboke, Dedricks Lemisi, and Zachary Nyabwaga.
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