A Machakos Court has barred activist Boniface Mwangi from publishing any content against Machakos Governor Alfred Mutua on social media.
The court also ordered Mwangi to refrain from associating Mutua with an alleged bomb attack on his house that is under construction, an incident that occurred in Machakos on October 21, 2021.
According to Judge George Odunga, the activist should refrain from referring to the governor as “a rapist, a thief, a corrupt individual, a molester, a murderer, a philanderer, a charlatan.”
Through his lawyer Harrison Kinyanjui, Mutua filed a defamation case against Mwangi after the latter made a video accusing him of executing the attack on his house. The activist shared the video on social media and indulged in a series of tweets on the same.
A demand letter to Mwangi by Kinyanjui read, “By a video published by yourself on October 20th, 2021, you uttered and published online, and further disseminated and caused to be printed and published online and vide other media, libelous and defamatory material of and concerning our said client (Mutua) in which you uttered the libelous and defamatory words, which transcribed were to the effect.”
The court documents read in part, “The court has hereby restrained the respondent (Boniface Mwangi) by himself, his servants, and or agents or otherwise howsoever, from publishing in any print or electronic media, or web-hosted platform, any innuendos, insinuations, allegations, or statements that the plaintiff either as having destroyed actually caused damage to the Defendant’s house in Lukenya.”
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