Blogger Busted Blackmailing! Cyprian Nyakundi Gets Arrested for Extortion

Popular blogger Cyprian Nyakundi who is known for his controversial articles has today been arrested by DCI detectives.

The detectives arrested Cyprian together with an acquaintance Emmanuel Nyamweya.

The arrest followed successful investigations touching on blackmail, extortion and false accusations.

According to a statement made by DCI, the two had just received Sh. 1 million from their victims on the 20th of January 2020.

The money was apparently only a down payment of Sh 17.5 million that they had earlier on demanded.

Cyprian Nyakundi is known for writing blog articles that expose deep dark secrets of prominent people and organizations.

He had apparently written defamatory articles on Victoria Commercial Bank. He then demanded the Sh. 17.5 million in order to pull down the posts.

Cyprian Nyakundi did what many of us could have done! Even if you provide concrete evidence in a case, the judges will still eat and free the thieves. For Nyakundi, he exposes and takes that moment to fund himself. I've never doubted El Presidente's wisdom!
Photo Courtesy📸 pic.twitter.com/kMSv8vsgiU

— Charles Wahinya™🇰🇪 (@Charleswahinya_) January 20, 2020

Nyakundi was arrested after the bank reported him to the police over his illegal demands.

The bank manager dismissed all the claims in Cyprian’s articles as baseless and hold no truth.

“He has severally tried to bring the CEO’s personality to disrepute as a way to extort monies with his unsubstantiated articles,” said the bank manager.

UPDATE: Bloggers Cyprian Nyakundi and Emmanuel Ong'era arrested for alleged extortion, blackmail and false accusations.

"The 2 had just received KSh 1M (down payment of KSh 17.5M) from a victim as precondition for pulling down libellous posts on a website" ~ @DCI_Kenya pic.twitter.com/Ph3u8waP6r

— NTV Kenya (@ntvkenya) January 20, 2020

The Sh. 1 million down payment was confiscated by police and is being held as exhibit money. The two suspects will be arraigned tomorrow in court.

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Cyprian and Nyamweya were arrested at Westgate Mall and are currently being detained.

They pleaded not guilty to the counts of extortion and blackmail before Milimani Law Court.