Larry Madowo Roasts Xtian Dela And Cyprian Nyakundi Over Their Extortion Activities

To start with, never call them Twitter ‘bigwigs’ again. If you do, you are probably misinformed, Larry Madowo advises.

“The man is what a clueless section of Twitter calls a “bigwig”, for his pseudo-influence and relatively high number of followers,” Larry writes in reference to Cyprian Nyakundi and his accomplice Xtian Dela, two hornbills on social media whom Ghafla! Kenya exposed for trying to extort 50M from Bidco to allegedly kill a negative story about the big corporate.

Everybody on Twitter knows these two individuals. They team up to intimidate whoever crosses their way thanks to the massive following they command, a following that in itself is suspect.

Remember when Robert Alai claimed Xtian Dela buys followers to be influential on social media? I reported this and gave my opinion in January this year. What followed were efforts by the two suspects to intimidate this blog and its writers. Ooh, even Baba Ghafla was not spared.

They told everyone that we are paid peanuts to write crap. Well, tuliachia Mungu.

In his Daily Nation column, Larry Madowo who discussed the two individuals on his The Trend Show last Friday picked from where he left and mercilessly discussed their actions of extortion that have cast them badly in the public eye.

Larry wonders why they use their social media influence to enrich themselves through unscrupulous means.

“There is a backstreet Twitter where you can pay an “influencer” to tarnish your competitor’s name or disparage someone whose nose you don’t like. In that dark corner of the Kenyan Twittersphere where I have not bothered to venture, there are also brokers that can then mediate between the slandered victim and said influencer to arrange “terms of engagement” that will make them “walk away” from the manufactured scandal,” Larry writes.

This is exactly what Nyakundi and Dela do to earn a living. Nyakundi has already been sued by Safaricom for defamation. Will he make it out of this?

Larry wonders why people who matter are not given the attention they deserve yet those who don’t are accorded the attention they don’t deserve.