Kenya Power Board Chairperson Joy Mdivo has threatened to sue the Standard Group after she was named as one of the top government officials engaged in a WhatsApp group allegedly devising means to quell the planned protests.
In a statement on X, hours after The Standard published the claims on the June 24 issue and plastered the damning WhatsApp messages on its front page, Mdivo revealed that she had already spoken to her lawyers of the same. "I belong to no such WhatsApp group, nor have I made such utterances in public or in private.
For The Standard to insinuate that I am planning to kill Kenyans is as untrue as it is defamatory. My lawyers have their instructions," she wrote.
Although not explicitly mentioned as among those with a role in facilitating the infiltration of goons in the planned June 25 protests, hers was one of the messages captured in the WhatsApp group where the plans are allegedly being hatched.
