Bungoma Senator Moses Wetangula has
filed a defamation suit against British Broadcasting Corporation for linking
him with bribery allegations by British American Tobacco Company.
In an urgent application at the High
Court, Wetangula said that he was defamed by BBC in its programme known as
Panorama, which allegedly portrayed him has having solicited the purchase of an
airline ticket to London for his wife.
The programme, he said revealed that
the Senator was corruptly involved in a corporate scandal in which BAT bribed
him while he was serving as Trade Minister in 2012.
The Senate Minority Leader through Senior
Counsel James Orengo, said that the article has been used as a basis of
unjustified attacks against the senator by his political rivals and civil
society.
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