Uhuru sues the Star over Hague photograph

Uhuru sues the Star over Hague photograph

The deputy prime minister Uhuru Kenyatta is suing the Star for linking him to a man who allegedly plotted to assassinate former Mungiki leader Maina Njenga. In a suit filed in Nairobi, Uhuru alleges that the Star published a story on 24 April 2012 linking him to city businessman Joseph Thuo Njoroge, who was roughed up by Njenga's youths when he visited the former Mungiki leader's Hope International Church at Thome estate on 22 April.

Uhuru said the story was was meant to portray him as "a thug whose exploits are worse than the most vile mafia operative" and as a man who will kill anyone along his way to state house.

The story also implied "that if the petitioner becomes the next president of Kenya he will be the most depraved president the country will ever know," reads part of the application.

Uhuru wants the court to issue a permanent injunction restraining the Star from publishing the said words or any other hate speech concerning him and that publishing the story was a violation of his rights.

The suit has not yet been received at the offices of the Star. The offending photo showed a picture of man similar to Thuo with Uhuru in the Hague during the confirmation of charges last September.

Source: allAfrica