Apologise now or else..., DP Ruto tells activist

Deputy President William Ruto yesterday demanded a retraction and apology from activist Boniface Mwangi over a libellous tweet. In a letter through Kilukumi and Company Advocates, the DP Ruto wants Mwangi’s apology to reach him within seven days starting yesterday. PHOTO: COURTESY

Deputy President William Ruto yesterday demanded a retraction and apology from activist Boniface Mwangi over a libellous tweet. In a letter through Kilukumi and Company Advocates, the DP Ruto wants Mwangi’s apology to reach him within seven days starting yesterday.

Mwangi is said to have wrote the libellous tweet (which we won’t repeat here due to legal purposes), on 28 September, 2016 through a social media platform (twitter) using his personal Twitter handle.

“Our instructions are that this tweet is false and malicious. The words in their ordinary and plain meaning are defamatory and they have severely injured our client’s reputation,” said senior counsel Kioko Kilukumi.

He wrote, “The defamatory words attracted 556 retweets and 476 likes as of today at 9:30 am 21 hours and 42 minutes after the tweet was posted as well as numerous comments from different people who now view our client as a murderer and a thief.

DP Ruto warned that should Mwangi fail to offer an apology, he will be moving to court to seek redress.