Revealed: Here is What Landed Controversial Blogger Cyprian Nyakundi Again

The adage has it that misfortunes don’t come singly and for blogger Cyprian Nyakundi they must be coming in bundles this year. The controversial blogger is still smarting from the Safaricom defamation suit against him, his exposed attempts to extort 40 million from BIDCO and the subsequent charges from the company.

In documents obtained from BIDCO Africa Limited lawyers, the defamation charges Nyakundi faces result from his series of stories he published on his blog as an investigative piece on alleged BIDCO activities in Uganda and later promoted the same in his tweets under #BIDCOExposed. The open letter was copied to leading media houses in the region and the Kenya and Uganda Presidents.

In their suit, BIDCO and its CEO Vimal Shah say the message in the series was meant and was understood to mean that they (BIDCO & Vimal Shah)  “are land grabbers, are ruthless imperialists, are involved in corrupting the Ugandan Government, have no regard for human rights, take advantage of the downtrodden’’ among other things. These are accusations which the Plaintiffs say are not true allegedly or at all.

It appears this time round the rabble rousing blogger has bitten off more than he could chew and it remains to be seen how the matter will be resolved.