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.

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Please sometimes Keep Uhuru…

GUEST1 (not verified) Sun, 06/24/2018 @ 09:00am

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Please sometimes Keep Uhuru Kenyatta's name out of this Rampant Nonsense of Corruption. INSTEAD just Get to the Point and say "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)." Wacheni KuingizaINGIZA jina la Uhuru kila Mahali.

Mheshimiwa Guest1: Mtu…

Imara (not verified) Sun, 06/24/2018 @ 12:50pm

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Mheshimiwa Guest1: Mtu ambaye ameshikilia usukani katika utawala wa Kenya sasa ni Mheshimiwa Uhuru.

Ningependa kukukumbusha ya kwamba, kama Mheshimiwa Uhuru angalichukua msimamo wa nchi ya Uchina juu ya mambo ya ufisadi, nakuhakikishia ya kwamba mambo ya ufisadi yangekuwa historia sasa. Rubani wa ndege sasa ni Kaputeni Mheshimiwa Uhuru. Ni lazima asiruhusu mende, nyoka, na pia panya kuishi kwa raha mstarehe ndani ya ndege ambayo yeye ndiye rubani mkuu.

Kusema kweli yafaa Mheshimiwa Uhuru afanye kazi yake vizuri na kama ameshindwa, ni afadhali ang'atuke.

Kwa nini hata sasa hatujui aliyewaua Waheshimiwa Msando na Jacob Juma? Kazi ya kuwa kiongozi siyo mchezo! Twajua Mheshimiwa Uhuru alilazimishwa kuwa rais na rais mstaafu Mheshimiwa Toroitich Arap Moi. Yeye mwenyewe alikuwa ametulia na kuwacha mambo ya siasa wakati wakazi wa Gatundu walipokataa kumchagua wakati alipogombea kiti hicho.

Mheshimiwa Mgeni1, ni lazima tuanze kujiandaa kumchagua rais mpya Kenya baada ya awamu ya Waheshimiwa Uhuru na Ruto kumalizika mwaka wa 2022.

Ni lazima sisi sote wananchi tujitahidi kuwakomesha waheshimiwa Ruto na Gideon Moi wasiote ndoto na kufikiria juu ya kutawala nchi ya Kenya baada ya 2022.