Court awards Jimmy Wanjigi Sh8 million for fake obituary

The High Court has ordered the Nation Media Group to pay businessman Jimmy Wanjigi (pictured) and his wife Irene Sh8 million for a false obituary published in February last year claiming he was dead.

High Court Judge Wilfrida Okwany ruled that the publication breached Wanjigi’s privacy. It dismissed the paper’s claim that it was a third party in the case since an unnamed man paid for the false obituary.