US based Kenyan Lawyer Regina Njogu Photo/Google Plus
A Kenyan lawyer who is based in the US has sued a Kenyan blogger for defamation and for refusing to retract an article published last year.
The suit was filed at the Montgomery County Circuit Court in Maryland by Regina Njogu accusing the owner of the blog called Kenyapoa of writing a defamatory story which later caused her emotional stress.
According to Njogu, she filed the complaint against the unknown blogger after she requested the blogger to remove the article; however the plaintiff refused or failed to comply.
She states that the plaintiff published an article on the blog titled: ‘Kenyan lawyer has been indefinitely suspended from the practice of law for engaging in professional misconduct’.
“The defendant has taken advantage of legal protections to make false, unsubstantiated, and defamatory statements against the plaintiff by operating anonymously and by protecting his or her information from discovery,” argues Njogu as reported by the Daily Nation.
“Clearly the said article is malicious and was deliberately meant to tarnish my name and standing in the society,” she added.