NATION MEDIA GROUP LIMITED, MUTEGI NJAU & BOB KIOKO V. JOHN JOSEPH KAMOTHO, CHARLES GITHII KAMOTHO, JAMES KAMOTHO & DAVID KAMOTHO

RULING OF THE COURT

This is an application under Rule 5 (2) (b) of the Rules of this Court for an order that the execution of the judgment and the decree of the superior court (Ojwang J) delivered on 1^st July, 2005 be stayed pending the determination of the appeal against that decree and the judgment.

The first applicant is the proprietor of both the Nation Radio and Nation T.V. The second and third applicants are the employees of the first applicant.

The 1^st respondent is a member of Parliament for Mathioya constituency in Murang’a District. He was at the material time a Minister for Local Government in the government of Kenya and also the Secretary General of KANU, the ruling political party at the time. The 2^nd, 3^rd and 4^th respondents are the sons of the first respondent. The 2^nd applicant was at the material time a Senior Medical Officer in charge of Thika District Hospital. He was also running a private clinic at Thika Town and a consultant at Nairobi Heart Clinic at Nairobi Hospit…