Controversial lawyer Ahmednassir Abdullahi has promised to ‘bring down’ Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph ole Lenku when they come face to face in court.
Ahmednassir, whose views about Lenku’s performance are public, says, after the case, Lenku will go back to his career in the hospitality industry.
“I promise ole lenku will meet his Waterloo in court,” said Ahmednassir on Twitter.
The threat to kick Lenku out of the influential public office was made via microblogging site Twitter just hours after news filtered that Lenku had sued Ahmednassir for defamation.
Then as if to pour cold water on the suit, and the consequences that might arise if the courts rule in favour of the Cabinet Secretary, Ahmednassir said Lenku was “public property”.
“A public servant is legally incapable of being defamed. He is a public property, would I have defamed ole Lenku if he remained in his former job?” posed the controversial lawyer.
Ahmednassir’s broadside on the Interior Cabinet Secretary, a former boss of Utalii College, the government’s hospitality school, comes just a week after the Law Society of Kenya said it will punish lawyers for professional misconduct if they post unpleasant comments on social media.
In a suit filed through his lawyer Donald Kipkorir, Lenku, said that between October 27 and November 11 the lawyer “falsely and maliciously printed and published defamatory words against him.” Lenku and Ahmednassir have been sparring on Twitter to an extent that Lenku had to ask the Director of Public Prosecutions to intervene and have the lawyer prosecuted.
“In consequence of the said publications, the plaintiff has been injured in his credit, character and reputation and brought into hatred, ridicule and contempt,” Mr Kipkorir states in the application filed late Friday.
The Cabinet Secretary, in the suit, added that the lawyer’s twitter posts portrayed him (Lenku) as a person who does not understand or respect law among other issues raised. Ahmednassir had linked Lenku to the invasion and grabbing of land in Narok and Kajiado counties.
Lenku is seeking for aggravated and exemplary damages.
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