Shyleen Mtandwa | Information Communication Technology and Courier Services, minister Supa Mandiwanzira, has slapped businessman and Grace Mugabe’s G-40 apologist, Agrippa Masiyakurima, popularly known as Bopela with a $300 000 lawsuit.

This is over social media rants.

Bopela, has been ranting a lot on social media, since ICT minister instigated an audit at NetOne, as the board had demanded with the two falling out during the process.

Part of the audit report exposed that Bopela was getting unwarranted and illegally attained contracts from the Reward Kangai administration to install base station, and some of those were rented at nonstrategic areas, while Bopela went on to allege that the attacks were more personal than anything.

Mandiwanzira – through his lawyer Advocate Brian Hungwe instructed by Dube, Manikai and Hwacha Legal Practitioners – wants Masiyakurima, popularly known as Bopela in business circles, to pay him $300 000 for damages caused by his Facebook posts alleging that the minister was corrupt and that the Nyanga North legislator was an accomplice in the plunder of Marange diamonds.

Masiyakurima however took to Facebook again, and continued to call the minister a thief, while he posting again memories from a year ago, attributing the same statement. He also posted the same story published by the Newsday, and maintains his same position.

“In Facebook posts between January 2 and 7, 2017, the defendant (Masiyakurima) made defamatory allegations that the plaintiff was a thief and a liar given to name-dropping, who falsely used the First Family name to acquire State entities like Telecel for personal gain,” part of the summons filed by the minister read.