The High Court has barred International Media House BBC from broadcasting bribery allegations linking Bungoma Senator Moses Wetangula to the unfolding corruption scandal at British American Tobacco (BAT) company.
Wetangula made an urgent application to the court claiming that BBC, through an investigative piece aired on the Panaroma Programme, had tainted his image.
The Bungoma Senator filed a defamation suit against the media house, a case set to be heard on January 7, 2016.
BAT has been accussed of bribing politicians and civil servants in different African countries including Kenya, where it runs establishments, to defy the set anti-smoking laws.
Paul Hopkins, the key whistleblower of the scam at BAT and a former employee of the cigarrete firm in Kenya, revealed that the company paid for a business class return flight for the Bungoma Senator's wife to London, an allegation that Wetangula firmly denied.
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According to the report, BAT's Lobbyist, Julie Adell-Owino, who arranged the bribes, asked that the transaction be "paperless" and there should be no receipts in Wetang'ula's name.
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Narc-Kenya leader Martha Karua and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga were also mentioned in the scandal.
Karua is accused of taking a bribe of Sh7.6 Million (£50,000) in a bid to block a rival firm from winning a multimillion-pound contract, to supply technology to combat cigarette smuggling.
The bribe termed as a 'political donation', was supposedly issued to Karua as she vied for the presidency in 2013.
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