Junet Mohamed threatens to sue Standard Newspaper over defamatory stories
Suna East MP Junet Mohamed has threatened to sue the Standard Media Group, accusing the publisher of running defamatory stories that damaged his reputation.
Suna East MP Junet Mohamed has threatened to sue the Standard Media Group, accusing the publisher of running defamatory stories that damaged his reputation.
In a letter through his lawyers on Tuesday, January 6, the MP gave the media house a seven-day ultimatum to retract, apologise, and offer assurances against further publication.
The demand followed a series of articles published in the January 6 edition, which Junet said portrayed him in a damaging and false light across the front page and multiple inside pages.
“Our client has brought to our attention, scandalous, reckless and malicious publication of defamatory articles in your publication of 6th January 2026 in the Standard Newspaper, appearing on the front page and at pages 6, 7 and 8, reported by Irene Githinji, Edwin Nyarangi and Harold Odhiambo respectively wherein they described and portrayed our client as a ‘traitor’,” the letter read.
The lawyers argued that the meaning of the words used by the newspaper was to depict Junet as dishonest, politically disloyal, and morally unprincipled.
“The natural and ordinary meaning of the words complained of is that our client is a traitor, dishonest individual, politically disloyal and morally unprincipled, and that he serves unnamed ‘masters’ rather than the public interest. The impugned words are plainly calculated to, and indeed do, lower our client’s reputation in the estimation of right-thinking members of the society, expose him to public hatred, contempt and ridicule and further impute disloyalty and betrayal of constitutional duty,” the letter added.
Junet noted that the allegations were not only inaccurate but were published with malicious intent to harm his standing in society.
The MP’s legal team stressed that as Minority Leader, he held a senior constitutional office and that accusing him of treachery without lawful basis amounted to extreme character assassination.
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The lawyers also took issue with a separate article on page 6, saying it falsely portrayed Junet as a political agent who engaged in brokering activities before disappearing.
“These words falsely portray our client as a covert political agent, a dishonest broker, and a person engaged in shadowy dealings. The allegations are entirely fabricated, unsupported by facts, and published with reckless disregard for the truth,” the letter continued.
Junet further addressed another article on page 8, which depicted him as an absentee and negligent Member of Parliament.
His lawyers argued that the prominence and repetition of the allegations across multiple pages demonstrated express malice and a disregard for journalistic and legal obligations.
The lawyers noted that the publications had caused severe reputational and personal harm, and they demanded immediate corrective action from the media house.
Junet issued a warning that failure to meet the demands within a week would result in immediate legal action against the media house.
Elsewhere, this came days after Junet was forced to defend himself following accusations by ODM Secretary General Edwin Sifuna that he had pocketed money meant to pay agents in the 2022 General Election.
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