Homa Bay Town Member of Parliament Peter Kaluma has threatened to take legal action against the Nation Media Group over an editorial piece depicting him in a cartoon form in their Sunday Nation issue of March 16.
In his response, the lawmaker took to social media seeking an apology from the media house before Monday, March 17, failure to which legal action would be taken as had been reportedly done to Standard Group.
"I hope Nation Africa knows what this means and will mean to their purse if they don't apologise by tomorrow," Kaluma stated.
"They have up to tomorrow to cross-check with the Standard Group the court determinations, fines, and pending actions on these matters they are lazily repeating and apologise before it is late."
The headline accompanying the cartoon read, Peter Kaluma: The rabblerousing MP not relieving pain in social media, House antics.
The piece further described the MP as, "The Homa Bay Town MP George Peter Opondo Kaluma is an interesting man, one worth a mention or two in the annals of 'clownism'," further angering him.
Earlier in the day, Kaluma had also sent a warning earlier in the day stating, "The Nation Media Group is provoking war with me this Lent season - Okay, we will see!"
This is the Sunday Nation's second piece of the day that has faced criticism after their front page headline drew criticism for quoting former Prime Minister Raila Odinga saying that he saved President William Ruto from an attempted military coup.
Taking to social media several politicians affiliated with the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) Party Leader called out the publication for reportedly misquoting him.
Most notable of them was Nandi County Senator Samson Cherargei who called on Odinga to demand an apology or sue the media house for the headline. He also rebuked their decision to draw the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) into politics.
"Nation media either is becoming sensational or they are misquoting PM Rt. Odinga on the issue of a military coup against H.E. Ruto government," Cherargei stated.
"PM Odinga must demand an apology or sue them for this non-objective/sensational reporting through brown envelope journalism. The Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) is the most disciplined, and non-partisan and doesn't do politics; dragging them to such serious accusations is malicious, uncouth, barbaric, and primitive just for political expedience."
