Kakamega Governor Dr.Bonny Khalwale his three wives and seventeen children will be demanding a total of shs 1.3 b from businessman Cleophas Shimanyula aka Toto for defamation
Senator Khalwale has today through his lawyer Danstan Omari filed a shs 200M suit after the businessman failed to reply to his demand letter.
The suit follows the defamatory statements made by bussinesman linking the khalwale to the death of his farm hand.
Lawyers Danstan Omari, Shadrack wambui,Omaiyo Oranga, in the application say. that the senators family has been subjected to multiple defamatory statements where the contractor allegedly accused one of his wives of infidelity and alluded that his children were sired out of an llicit affair with the deceased, Late Kizito Moi’s wife.
“The Plaintiff’s family has been under immense attack, and his wife and children continue to face disparaging comments questioning their fidelity and paternity respectively”,the court papers read.
Khalwale says that the utterances made by Toto have embarrassed him and painted a picture of a “Murderer who is irate and hot tempered in the eyes of the people of Kakamega.
“The defendant maliciously accused the plaintiff of murder in an attempt to depict him as an irate and hot-tempered individual, embarrassing the plaintiff’s family and undermining his position as the Senator for the great people of Kakamega County”,the application reads
Khalwale who is also a medical doctor further says that over the past few weeks, he has been subjected to orchestrated attacks and malicious accusations steered by Toto where he allegedly claimed that he murdered his employee of 20 years ,the Late Kizito Moi Amukune.
Speaking after filing the defamation suit Khalwale’s lead Advocate Danstan Omari said that he wants to teach Toto a lesson by seeking one of the highest payouts for damages.
“I have been instructed on behalf of the four wives and 17 children who are said to be bastards I will be filling a demand where they will all be seeking a global figure of Kshs 1.5 billions shilling for each of them.I will be going for Kshs 200 million for each family member.We want to teach Toto not to Chest thump,he thought we were joking,”Omari said.
Shimanyula is also on record for claiming that Khalwale foul-played Amukune because the latter was having an illicit affair with an unnamed wife among the politician’s three spouses.