He expressed surprise that it took a whole year for Kiplagat to resurface with the allegations and to further poke holes into his accuser’s claims, he questions why Tunoi would have taken Kiplagat along as a, “joyrider,” to receive a bribe and why such a bribe, as Kiplagat claims, would have been exchanged at a petrol station near his office when he was not to be party to it. “I was away in Europe when the exchange is alleged to have taken place.”

Speaking to Capital News, Njeru’s lawyer Andrew Musangi said they presented copies of the cheques that Njeru wrote to Kiplagat to the committee as well as a copy of an email in which Kiplagat allegedly attached his affidavit — more than a year before it made its way into the public domain — in an attempt to blackmail Njeru

Supreme Court judge Njoki Ndung’u has sued businessman Jacob Juma for defamation over claims she received money alongside Justice Philip Tunoi.

The judge, through her lawyer Andrew Musangi on Thursday, gave Juma 48 hours to retract his tweets through paid up adverts in three newspapers and post the same on Twitter.

Juma in five tweets posted on January 30, said Ndung’u and Deputy Chief Justice Kalpana Rawal “had been paid separately outside the $2 million bribe.”

He said the two judges were paid without the involvement of Tunoi and instead “dealt directly with the bribe giver”.

Tunoi has been accused of receiving a Sh200 million bribe against Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero.