Kenyan Man Accused Of Threatening Jacob Juma In Court Over Threat Message To Asian Businessman

• Debt collector Brian Yongo is in soup for allegedly sending an offensive text message to a Kenyan businessman of Asian descent
• 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.

Cyberbullying laws in Kenya

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:

"I swear to my mother, you are... You will know who I am. Raju, I'm going to teach you a lesson. Go tell OCS at Spring Valley that I have said I will teach you a lesson," read the charge sheet.

Brian Yongo's unprintable WhatsApp message to a businessman

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.

"My friend in Spring Valley there, I want to send you visitors; tonight, don’t sleep, I want to show you... You say you were shot in the eye; I want to show you that I know people who shoot. I swear upon my mother, this one, even Sonko, will not help you," read the charge sheet.

Brian Yongo threatens Jacob Juma

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.

Proofreading by Asher Omondi, current affairs journalist and copy editor at TUKO.co.ke.

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