South Sudanese politician and former Sudan People’s Liberation Army commander, Daniel Awet Akot,  has sued The Nation Newspaper for slander, following a story published on the paper that linked him to a 28-year-old Kenyan businesswoman, who was murdered at her Nairobi apartment in 2018.

Awet Akot, through his Kenyan lawyer, Donald Kipkorir, argues that in it’s October 3, 2018 edition, The Daily Nation Newspaper published a slanderous article against him alleging that he used his position of influence as Governor of Bahr el Ghazal State to enrich the late Monica Kimani.

In a petition filed at the Milimani Law Courts, Awet Akot is seeking damages from Nation Media Group, as well Chief Executive Officer Stephen Gitagama, then Editor-in-Chief Tom Mshindi, and Executive Editor Mutuma Mathiu.

In the article titled; ENTER THE GENERAL: HOW MONICA KIMANI MADE A FORTUNE IN JUBA, which was still available on the Daily Nation’s website by the time this article was published, the paper wrote that, “Close relatives and friends had claimed that Ms Kimani was married to Mr Akot, and that it is through this connection that the family’s fortunes have improved over the past three years,”.