CYPRIAN NYAKUNDI’S WOES: The Incriminating Court Documents Against Him Are Out

Recently, Twitter ‘bigwig’ and blogger Cyprian Nyakundi(@c_nyakundi) has found himself in the hottest of waters.

In a series of articles, he decided to channel his inner social justice warrior and take on the biggest privately held company in Kenya, Bidco. He hastily wrote over a dozen articles allegedly exposing wrongdoings from Bidco top brass, but after a few articles, Bidco representatives met up with him to straighten things out. He proceeded to try and extort them for 50 million shillings(yes, 50 million) to remove the story and even acknowledged in leaked audios of the meeting, that his stories were fake. Bidco refused to bow to the dreamy whims of this twenty-something year old blogger, and in turn have sued Nyakundi for defamation just last week.

Now the pressure is on Nyakundi. From the court documents, it appears Bidco has reason to believe that billionaire Rendeavour CEO Stephen Jennings offered various influential tweeps including Nyakundi, a paltry 8,000KShs  to spread the defamatory Bidco stories. Twitter personality @ramzzy_ revealed that he saw this offer and smartly calculated the risk vs reward. It simply doesn’t add up. 8k in exchange for a potential lawsuit? Most would say

Even a mere tweep such as Nyakundi should have had the foresight to ask if he would be prepared to defend himself in a fight between billionaires if the shit hit the fan. It has become clear from his desperate actions in the last few weeks that he isn’t.

Add  to that the old saying that there is no honor among thieves. If someone you get in beef alongside someone corrupt, you’re on your own! Going against the corporate powers that be, you better be sure your story is airtight. With Nyakundi, he made the very basic blunder of not contacting the affected party(Bidco) to assure that he had their side of the story. Instead he goaded Bidco at the end of all his stories. “Come baby come,” so to speak. In the true spirit of the dishonourable thief, Nyakundi also tried to play his financier and Bidco against each other. He proposed that Bidco match a secret figure that Jennings had allegedly put on the table. Now see his life. Turns out he was just but a mere pawn in a grandmaster chess game. Stephen Jennings is a billionaire, he probably has his bases covered. He is safe. Nyakundi is now the sacrificial lamb headed to slaughter. The only thing he has to defend himself now is hashtags. That’s right. Hashtags are his first and last defense.

But hashtags won’t save him now. The matter has moved from the court of public opinion to the court of law. Here are the documents listing the charges from Bidco’s legal team:

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Now it’s about mustering a good legal and financial defence, two things that appear scant for Nyakundi in this case. Perhaps the hand of God shall intervene in this matter. That is his only real hope as of now. May this serve as a cautionary tale for my fellow bloggers having trouble harnessing their newfound powers.