Court Compels Bloggers to Apologise to MP Nabwera Over Murder Links

The High Court has ordered three bloggers sued by Lugari Member of Parliament for publishing articles in the social media allegedly linking him to the disappearance and heinous murder of a secondary school principal nine days ago have been ordered to apologize to him.

Sitting at Milimani High Court, Justice Edward Muriithi considered the cases filed by Nabii Daraja Nabwera- the petitioner as urgent and ordered the bloggers to apologise to the lawmaker,

“Having considered the evidence presented by lawyer Danstan Omari, I hereby hold and find that there is tangible evidence to warrant the grant of the prayers sought,” the judge ruled.

The judge proceeded to compel the bloggers to apologise to the MP for allegedly maligning his name through social media publications.

The court also certified as urgent all three defamation cases, concurring with Omari, that there is rampant violation of the computer misuse and cybercrime laws by social media.

Nabwera has named Peter Amunga, George Opunga Tamata and Simon Asievela as the defendants in the case.

In the petitions, the MP is urging the court to compel the defendants to pull down, erase and or delete all the alleged false, acrimonious and defamatory publications.

However, the Milimani High Court declined to compel the bloggers to pull down the alleged false publications linking Nabwera to the death of Simon Isiaho Shange, the principal of Munyuki Secondary School, who went missing on November 3, 2025, following a road accident in Kakamega County.

The MP states in the petitions that the bloggers did not solicit any information from him regarding the teacher who was allegedly involved in a road accident. Then his body disappeared from the accident scene.

The body of Shange was retrieved from River Kipkaren on November 8 2025, after he was reported missing on November 3 2025.

Following the accident, the high court has been told that social media published false allegations linking the Lugari MP Nabii Nabwera with the disappearance and subsequent death of Shange.

The MP urged the court to compel the bloggers to apologise to him pending the determination of the three character assassination cases, whereby the lawmaker is seeking Ksh 60 million in damages for defamation from all the bloggers.

The body of Shange was retrieved from a river with injuries which police claim are not consistent with those from a road accident.

Police in Kakamega have launched investigations into the death of a school principal whose body was discovered days after he went missing.

Shange disappeared on November 3, 2025, while going to pick up examination papers at the Lugari sub-county Deputy County Commissioner’s office.

In the slur suits, the MP claims the conduct of the three bloggers violates Section 23 of the Computer Misuse and Cybercrime Act No.5 of 2018, which requires offenders to be fined Ksh 10 Million or be jailed for a period not exceeding 10 years.

The court ordered Omari to serve all three bloggers with the suit to enable them to file.