Deborah Kigongo looks surprisingly strong, unscathed by an 11-year battle through which she has pushed all stops to get justice.

She glows on, ready to do whatever it takes to get justice for an omission in which her company’s consignment was irregularly auctioned at Mombasa port.

It’s been 11 years of pursuing justice in the Kenyan judicial system, but even when she has secured victory - not once but twice - it has always been a case of so near, yet so far.

In 2012, Kigongo, the proprietor of Kaaya Enterprises, filed a case in Kenya, challenging the irregular auction of her consignment.

For seven years, she waited patiently, and in 2019, she got her first victory, but dissatisfied with the ruling, on May 29, 2019, Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) appealed the judgment, in which Kigongo had been awarded $40,000 (Shs149m) as compensation for the value of consignment that was auctioned as abandoned cargo at Mombasa port.

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