Kakamega Deputy Governor Given Six-Hour Ultimatum to Apologize to MP or Face Court
A fierce legal confrontation has erupted in Kakamega County after lawyers for Lugari Member of Parliament Nabii Daraja Nabwera issued a demand to Deputy Governor Ayub Angatia Savula, accusing him of gross defamation and demanding a public apology and one hundred million shillings in compensation.
The six-hour ultimatum, contained in a letter dated 14 January 2026 from Danstan Omari & Associates Advocates, centres on statements Savula allegedly made at a funeral in November last year, which the MP claims falsely insinuated details about his health and sought to destroy his reputation.
The legal demand states that on 25 November 2025, during the burial of Munyuki Secondary School principal Simon Isiaho Shange in Ludodo village, Likuyani Sub-County, Deputy Governor Savula took to the podium and launched an attack on MP Nabwera.
The lawyers allege Savula made “extremely vicious, inaccurate, derogatory, defamatory, vexed and aligning statements” against their client in relation to the principal’s accidental death. The letter attaches particular gravity to one allegation, claiming Savula’s remarks “went to the extent of purporting to air his HIV status, of which you lack the slightest of clues.” A link to a recording of the statements was provided as evidence.
Acting on Nabwera’s instructions, the advocates argue that Savula’s “unhinged, unprovoked and politically calculated statements” were deliberately geared at tarnishing the MP’s name. They emphasise that, given Savula’s position as Deputy Governor and a former two-time MP for Lugari, his words carry significant weight and have caused far-reaching damage. “That the said words and statements pose a security and reputational affront to the painstakingly built and developed influence our client commands, world over, hence injurious to him and to his family, personally, and his constituents, severally,” the letter states.
Consequently, the law firm has presented Savula with a stringent set of demands to be fulfilled within six hours of receiving the letter. First, he must tender a public apology delivered with the same “nature, verve, enthusiasm and vigour” as the original statements. Second, he must “unequivocally admit” to having made statements about ongoing court cases, which they say is “repugnant to the rule of subjudice.” The third and most substantial demand is for Savula to “make good the reputational and career dent” by paying MP Nabwera Kenya Shillings one hundred million (KSh 100,000,000) in compensation.
In defence of his reputation, Nabwera, described in the letter as “an exceptionally performing member of parliament,” firmly denies the substance of Savula’s alleged comments. The lawyers convey their client’s position that the statements are “false, inaccurate, and ill- intended, geared at maligning, tainting and dragging his efforts and service to the people of Lugari constituency in bad light, in a bid to settle political scores.”
Strikingly, the MP has also issued a direct challenge to the Deputy Governor regarding the HIV status allegation. The letter notes that Nabwera is “ready and willing to have you and him, subjected to the said test in a public set up, by reputational Laboratories and Centers, to verify and disclose the said status,” should Savula seek to prove his claims.
