Six top Central Organisation of Trade Unions (Cotu) officials have sued Labour secretary Kazungu Kambi and three MPs over remarks linking them to the murder of Kabete MP George Muchai.
Francis Atwoli, Rajab Mwondi, Rebecca Nyathogora, Francis Wangara and Joseph Nyabiya want the court to stop the minister and the three MPs from using any further defamatory words against them.
Mr Kambi has been sued alongside MPs Moses Kuria (Gatundu), Francis Waititu (Juja) and Alice Ng’ang’a for alleging that the Cotu top six officials killed the Kabete MP.
The allegedly defamatory statements were made at the late MP’s funeral at his Kamulu home.
“The defendants did allege that Cotu’s six top most officials who have a case with Muchai are responsible for his death. The said words were understood to mean that I am a criminal and a person who leads a gang of thieves and murderers who killed the late Mr Muchai,” Mr Atwoli said.
Mr Muchai and Mr Atwoli had been engaged in a series of legal battles prior to the legislator’s death.
The late MP in November asked the High Court to freeze Cotu’s bank accounts as he alleged the union’s top officials were mismanaging workers’ funds.
The Cotu boss had one month earlier sued Mr Muchai for defamation after the late MP claimed Mr Atwoli had embezzled funds from the workers’ union.
The Kabete MP was shot dead on February 8, on the Kenyatta Avenue-Uhuru Highway roundabout alongside his driver and two bodyguards.
Mr Atwoli added that Mr Kambi falsely accused him of fleecing Cotu’s coffers, which are replenished by workers’ monthly contributions.
The Cotu officials claimed the comments had affected their personal and professional lives.
Mr Atwoli has faulted the CS and the MPs over the comments despite ongoing investigations into the murder of Mr Muchai, whom he described in court papers as a brother.
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