Former Chief Justice David Maraga has sued Senior Counsel Ahmednasir Abdullahi in an 80-page document seen by Kenyans.co.ke on Wednesday, February 24.
According to the document, Maraga accused Ahmednasir of defaming his character in a tweet about a supreme court judge whom he accused of pocketing a Ksh200 million bribe.
The senior counsel had accused Maraga of being complacent during his term as Chief Justice.
“On 12th January 2021, the defendant posted, published, and circulated a defamatory, libellous, and scandalous tweet on his Twitter handle @ahmednasirlaw directed at the plaintiff as follows
“If CJ Maraga is a decent and honest Kenyan, he should come clean on the issue of the senior judge of the supreme court who took a Ksh 220 million bribe. Me and CJ Maraga know the judge ... intelligent Kenyans must read a lot on Maraga's astute silence on this matter,” the defamatory tweet read according to the suit papers.
The former chief justice has hired the services of TripleOKLaw Advocates to represent him in the matter.
Maraga also accused the Senior Counsel of not filing his allegations or complaints with the relevant authority for action or investigation.
He now wants the courts to rule that the tweets against him were defamatory and that the city lawyer should be held liable for damage caused to his character.
After receiving the suit papers, Ahmednasir vowed to spill the beans on the scandal which he has been addressing albeit in a cryptic manner without revealing the said judge.
“The sickening pretensions by ex-CJ David Maraga that he doesn't know the senior supreme court judge who received a bribe of Ksh 220 million is struggling to sell a farm in Nyandarua for Ksh 350 million is breathtaking. Now he has filed a suit I will unmask Kenya’s biggest bribe in the Supreme Court,” he tweeted.
The senior counsel also penned a disparaging article in the newspaper criticizing Maraga’s term at the helm of the Judiciary, saying he was the least qualified for the job.
“Nothing in his past career as a judge of the High Court and the Court of Appeal, or even as legal private practitioner litigating the odd debt collection case or the routine cases in Nakuru, prepared Justice Maraga for the office of the Chief Justice,” Ahmednasir penned.
