Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho Threatens to Sue Jubilee Leaders for Linking Him to Drug Trafficking

Mombasa Governor Ali Hassan Joho has threatened to sue four Jubilee party leaders for linking him to drug trafficking.

In a letter, Joho's lawyer has given Nandi Governor Stephen Sang, Kikuyu MP Kimani Ichung'wa, his counterparts Didmus Barasa (Kimilili) and Oscar Sudi (Kapseret) a 24-hour ultimatum to issue a public apology.

"We have instructions to immediately set into motion legal action against you for defamation and seek damages for your spurious and slanderous statements," the letter reads.

Speaking during a press briefing in Nairobi last week, the four claimed that Governor Joho has destroyed the lives of many Kenyan youths through the ‘drug business that he runs’

Through his lawyer Kelvin Ochieng, Joho accuses the four Deputy President William Ruto's allies of malice and public ridicule.

“The statements were not only reckless but made with utmost malevolence, wickedness, were offensive and meant to inflict the greatest harm to our client’s reputation,” the lawyer says.

Joho has also demanded that media that carried the reports from the four politicians to delete the articles.

The four were responding to Joho's earlier claims that Opposition leader Raila Odinga asked his camp to support President Kenyatta and oppose Ruto’s 2022 presidential bid.

He also said Ruto is not fit to be President because he has been implicated in several corruption scandals.

“I am extremely against the presidential bid of Ruto, this country cannot be led by someone like Ruto because of his bad integrity,” Joho said while speaking in Busia.