Three journalists have been ******** for alleg***y defaming Kakamega Senator Cleophas Malala by circulating p**tos***** **** p**tos at the instigation of Sports Cabinet Secretary Rashid Echesa.
Addressing journalists at Parliament Buildings, Malala claimed Echesa used the trio – David Ndolo, Stafford Ondego and Alex Njue to create and circulate the p**tos, which depict him in a compromising situation with an unidentif*** woman as part of a ********* ***.
“Yesterday in some social media network there was demeaning p**tos of the CS in an unknown lodging with a woman in compromising situations. When t**se went viral Rashid looked for journalists w**m he sent the p**tos and told them to P**tos**p and replace them with me and release them online. Because I have a***en on intelligence I was able to round up t**se journalists with the help of police,” he said.
“ Recently he was on a radio talk s**w back at **me and said a lot of things to defame me),” he added.
According to the senator, d****g their ******, the journalists’ p**nes and a laptop that was used to create the image were confi****ed and there was evidence of their communication with Echesa.
The CS’s personal driver is said to have sent Ksh 5,000 to the journalists. Circulating offensive p**tos is a c***e under the Computer Misuse and Cyberc***es Act, which was enacted in May this year.
“Seconds after Ndolo sent the P**tos**p*** images to the CS, he for***ded to me the same. So I am a witness too in this case. We confi****ed their p**nes and laptops,” Malala told journalists.
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He added that his had instructed his lawyer, Siaya Senator James Orengo and engaged an expert to help with evidence gathering that would eventually be used d****g ***********.
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