A court has restrained controversial blogger Edgar Obare from publication and extraction of defamatory online posts against three businesspeople who sued him.
Yvonne Mugure, Tina Lewis and Christine Nyambura Muturi sued the blogger for writing about them and allegedly publishing defamatory content.
The three averred that the blogger invaded their privacy by allegedly revealing the identity of her associates and impugning her integrity in the process.
Mugure is known for flaunting her pricy properties online to show her lavish living.
She also lavishes praises on a person she only calls her mentor whose name she has resisted revealing, saying she did not want her privacy invaded.
But the blogger purported to unmask the mentor in a blog, naming her as Christina Lewis and claiming she is of dubious integrity.
But Mugure, alongside Christine Nyambura Muturi and one other person sued the blogger, getting orders to stop him from further defaming her and her associates.
“Pending the hearing and determination of this application a temporary injunction is issued against the Defendant [Obare] from further publication and extraction of defamatory online posts...”The court has also ordered the blogger to stop using his X platform in “declaring that Christina Lewis is a Convicted investor fraudster...[and].. blatantly disesteeming Westwick College,” the order dated January 29, reads.
"That in the interim pending the hearing and determination of this application a temporary injunction is issued restraining the Defendant his associates or otherwise from further uttering, distributing, publishing any articles, posts, comments and/or words that are libellous or injurious falsehood or any similar words defamatory of the Plaintiffs.”
The court has ordered the director of Criminal Investigation and or Head of Cyber Crime to enforce the order.
The matter is set for an interparty hearing on February 19.
