Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party Director of Communications Philip Etale has lashed out at the Star Newspaper over its Tuesday main headline.
This is after the paper featured a story over an alleged ongoing tussle within the party leader Raila Odinga's family, involving his wife Ida Odinga and daughter-in-law Lwam Bekele.
The paper suggests that Bekele, widow to Raila's late son Fidel Odinga, is allegedly being blocked from administering her late husband's estate by Mrs Odinga, following Fidel's death in 2015.
However, Etale says that the story had been sponsored, for reasons not spelt out, claiming that it was first rejected by the Standard newspaper before the Star picked it up.
He says that the sponsors appear to have moved to the next paper, also bashing the media house for practising 'armchair' journalism and spewing inaccurate reports.
"It clearly tells you the story is sponsored. After being rejected by the Standard, the sponsor moved to the Star. This is what we call ARMCHAIR journalism. We were never taught about copy and paste in journalism, we were taught to be creative, factual and accurate," Etale wrote in a tweet on Tuesday.
The remarks about the story's rejection follow initial reports that the story was only shelved by the Standard after Raila intervened, fearing that it can harm his reputation.