SIAYA POLITICIAN FINED KSH6 MILLION AFTER DOING THIS TO A POPULAR MP

A politician in Siaya county identified as Booker Ngesa has been ordered by a court to pay Gem MP Elisha Odhiambo KSh 5 million as general damages in a defamation case

The High Court sitting in Siaya on Wednesday, July 28, directed Ngesa to pay the lawmaker following a Facebook post.

The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) lawmaker had sued the politician, who is also a resident of Gem, for defamation.

Ngesa vied against Odhiambo in the 2017 General Election.

According to a news report by a local media Odhiambo told the court that the politician wrote on his Facebook page that he is a thief who stole public money and repeated the same allegations in a local FM station.

Justice Roseline Aburili directed Ngesa to also pay aggravated damages of KSh 1 million to the legislature.

“This court has also issued a permanent injunction restraining Ngesa from continuing to defame the MP,” judge Aburili said in her judgement.

The MP told the court Ngesa wrote defamatory content about him and shared it in public. He said one of his constituents sent him a text message on the phone alerting him that someone had posted something discrediting his name on social media.

Aburili said Ngesa continued to publish defamatory words against the MP even when the trial was still on.

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