Real estate director sues LSK for defamation

In an application filed under certificate of urgency,  Stephen Mwangi Kimani is seeking interim orders directing LSK and a Facebook group known as Kwambira/Kamirithu Notice Board to pull down posts claiming he has been masquerading as a lawyer from their Facebook accounts pending the hearing and determination of the suit.

Milimani High Court judge Stella Mutuku directed that the application be heard on Tuesday.

In his affidavit, Kimani, who is also a politician, stated that his name was published on Kwambira/Kamirithu Notice Board Facebook account, which has about 70,000 subscribers, to the effect that he was masquerading as an advocate, information that was false leading to the tarnishing of his name.

The LSK is jointly sued with Joseph Karanja Muchai who is the administrator of the group, and the one who permitted the publication and posting of misleading information to the public from whom he will be seeking votes in the 2027 General Election.

“Muchai is close associate of my political rival within Limuru Constituency where I have announced my intentions to vie in 2027, as the area Member of Parliament,” he states in the affidavit.

He also stated that the respondents went to Limuru police station on February 14, 2025, and reported that he was posing to be their member and as an advocate, adding that Officer Commanding the Station summoned him and his name was cleared and their report was found to be misleading and lacking basis and he was cleared and set free.

At the police station where he was interrogated, Kimani stated that the LSK members who were present took his photos without his consent and immediately upon leaving the police station they used his image and have been posting and advertising him as a masquerader in their postings.

He indicated that the posts were shared and widely circulated to tarnish his name.

He further stated that despite his request to them to pull down the misleading posts they have failed to do so and continue to add more.