Raila warns Daily Nation over AU Job Saga
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Raila Odinga warns Daily Nation over an article it published on the ongoing AU Job Saga
Raila Odinga warns Daily Nation over an article it published on the ongoing AU Job Saga.
Through his legal team Awele Jackson Advocates, Raila on Saturday, February 25 issued a cease and desist letter to Daily Nation over an article.
The letter quotes Raila’s legal team as saying that the information released by the publication was inaccurate, malicious, and harmed Raila’s reputation.
The newspaper’s front-cover story, “Treasury Spent Billions for Raila’s 2 AU offices,” said that Ksh2 billion taxpayers’ money may have been used to support Raila’s position as the AU’s High Representative for Infrastructure.
The lawyers now demand that the newspaper publish an apology for publishing what they claimed to be a biased story.
“You will publish an equivocal apology and/or retraction of the defamatory publication against our client with commensurate prominence in the print and electronic media within 24 hours from the date thereof,” the letter read in part.
Speaking to the media, the lawyer, Jackson Awele, confirmed the cease and desist demands to the Daily Nation.
In the letter, he argued that the media house did not seek clarification from Raila’s team.
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“For the recorded, the above allegations are entirely false. Had you made the effort to ascertain the accurate factual position from the African Union before publishing the article?”
“You would have established that all expenses related to our client’s role were borne directly by the African Union by NEPAD and partly by our client,” read the letter in parts.
However, Dennis Onyango who serves as Raila’s Spokesperson refuted the claims adding that the role was not funded by taxpayers.
“Odinga never had an AU office and staff in Nairobi. He was using his private office at Capitol Hill,” Nation quoted Onyango.
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