The High Court has awarded Kisii Senator Okong'o Mogeni Ksh6.5 million together with his wife, Lady Justice Jacqueline Mogeni, in a defamation suit they had filed against the Nation Media Group over unfair coverage. The couple had sued the media conglomerate over a story covered in November 2021 titled 'Lawmaker Pushes Wife's Hiring as Judge'. According to the Senator’s family lawyers, the story was false, malicious, and injurious to their reputations as serving Senator and High Court judge. BreakdownThe court awarded Senator Mogeni Ksh5 million for general damages, his wife Ksh500,000, and another Ksh1 million in exemplary damages, bringing the total figure to Ksh6.5 million. In 2010, the High Court ordered Nation Media Group to pay former Minister Joseph Kamotho and his three sons Ksh14 million for defamation.