On Friday, she went to a garden where the World Bank's Kenya director, Makhtar Diop, was holding a party, complaining that the music was too loud. It was reported in detail in the Daily Nation and audio recordings were broadcast on radio stations to a Kenyan public already unhappy about Mrs Kibaki's behaviour. The protest took place on World Press Freedom Day. "After she stormed the newsroom, I rushed to take pictures and she furiously asked: 'What are you doing? Are you taking pictures? Stop,' then she slapped me, grabbed me, and we started to struggle as she wanted to take my camera,"Derrick said. When she saw a cameraman, Clifford Derrick, filming her, she allegedly assaulted him. She also wanted that reporter's editor arrested. Touring the newsroom and sitting down at different editors' desks, she reportedly said: "We cannot entertain lies, it is illegal and it is a crime."Īccording to reports in yesterday's late edition, Mrs Kibaki demanded the arrest of a reporter who wrote a story about her visiting a police station to complain about noise levels at the party. She accused the paper of printing lies about her behaviour on Friday night, when she disrupted a party for the outgoing country director of the World Bank, who lives next door to the president's private home.
Mrs Kibaki, one of President Mwai Kibaki's two wives, arrived at the offices of the Daily Nation just before midnight on Monday, accompanied by a six-man security detail, and stayed until 5am yesterday. Kenya's first lady, Lucy Kibaki, entered the offices of the country's biggest-circulation newspaper yesterday, where she allegedly slapped a television cameraman and seized reporters' notebooks and tape recorders to protest at stories about her eccentric behaviour.
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