President Uhuru Kin Threatens to Sue Standard Newspaper for Linking Him to NYS Scandal

President Kenyatta's uncle Paul Gathecha Muhoho and his co-director at PetroKenya Oil Company, Gor Semelang’o have threatened to sue Standard Newspaper over articles linking them to Sh9 billion scandal at the National Youth Service (NYS).

The two have written to Standard Media Group demanding an apology for two articles published on the Standard claiming that they may have received millions of shillings from the youth agency.

In the letter to the Standard, the two say that the articles published on June 13th and June 16th “were not proceeded by any attempt to verify the accuracy thereof”.

“You have made defamatory allegations in relations to, and cast aspersions against, our said clients; by alleging expressly and by innuendo, that our clients have, improperly and/or otherwise directly, or in collusion with others, fraudulently obtained, or benefited from, motives irregularly paid by the National Youth Service,” read the letter in part, written by P.M. Kimani & Company Advocates.

The Standard published a story headlined "How Uhuru Kin Got Millions From NYS Deal" on June 13th and another on June 15th titled ‘PS’s Explosive Dossier On NYS Spills The Beans’.

The two, through their lawyers say the articles were malicious and aimed at disparaging their reputation to the public.

“In publishing the said defamatory allegations, alleged statement of facts; and said imputations, assertions, inferences, allusions and innuendo, you were actuated by extreme malice; and that the said publications were calculated to disparage our clients in the eyes of the right-thinking members of the public; and to thereby cause our clients to be ridiculed, and held in contempt and disdain,” the letter further reads.

“(We) demand a written, unconditional and unreserved apology in publications with similar coverage and/or outreach as the same as the ones that carried the said offensive articles; such an apology to bear similar prominence of the said offensive articles,” concluded the letter.