Court orders Church to pay elder Sh5.5 million for defamation

Joseph Kamira Wanjau in Nakuru Town on September 29, 2016 after attending court when a judgement was delivered in his favor. The court awarded him Sh5.5M as compensation for damages in a defamation case. He had sued the Presbyterian Church of East Africa for depicting him as crook and an undisciplined arrogant elder in a letter read in over 30 churches in November 2013. PHOTO KIPSANG JOSEPH.

The High Court has given the Presbyterian Church of East Africa 45 days to pay a church elder Sh5.5 million.

The court dismissed an application by the church and its head, Reverend Lloyd Kabaiya, seeking a stay of execution of the court’s judgment dated November 30, 2016.