Debt collector Brian Yongo is in soup for allegedly sending an offensive text message to a Kenyan businessman of Asian descent....CONTINUE READING THE FULL ARTICLE>>>
He was charged with computer misuse and cyberbullying over an offensive text message he sent to businessman Rajendra Sanghani.
Yongo was also on the spot in 2015 for allegedly sending threats to the late businessman Jacob Juma. Popular debt collector Brian Yongo has been charged with cyberbullying in a Nairobi court.
The controversial debt collector is accused of sending an offensive text to an Asian businessman and threatening to teach him a lesson.
Yongo appeared before Milimani Senior Resident Magistrate Benmark Ekhubi and was charged with harassment, contrary to Section 27(a) of the Computer Misuse and Cybercrime Act 2018.
He is accused of abusing and threatening Rajendra Sanghani, the managing director of Granada Trading Company.
According to the charge sheet, Yongo allegedly committed the offence on April 12 by sending the following WhatsApp message:
Some of the words Yongo allegedly used in the text message are unprintable and deliberately omitted from this article. According to the state, the message was intended to cause anger or a fear of violence in Sanghani.
He also faced a second count of threatening to kill, where he implied that he would send goons at night to shoot Sanghani and that not even prominent people would come to his aid.
Yongo denied all the charges and was freed on a cash bail of KSh 100,000 or a bond of KSh 200,000 with the same surety amount.
The accused termed the charges against him an attempt by the complainant to settle their business issues. This is not the first time that Yongo has had a brush with the law. In 2015, he was brought before a Kibera law court to answer charges of threatening the late businessman Jacob Juma.
He also found himself in trouble for allegedly forging the logbook of a Range Rover car..CONTINUE READING>>
