Author: Cyrus

There was panic on Saturday among Safaricom agents when most of them saw discrepancies in their commission earnings. The agents thought that it was Safaricom clawing back on commission while in the real sense it was a system error. The agents only became comfortable when Safaricom clarified the system error.

  DSTV sports network Supersport has now chartered a 40-seater plane to carry its 37 man crew scheduled to cover the Gor Mahia vs Muhoroni Youth match this weekend in Kisumu. The abrupt charter comes after FKF Chairman Sam Nyamweya said that the ban on Gor Mahia and AFC fans from the stadia has been temporarily suspended. The bans were suspended until the appeals by the two teams are heard and determined. Supersport had already resigned to the earlier decision to have the Gor Mahia match at Kasarani with the team playing to an empty stadium. Earlier bookings were not…

After recently quitting Radio, Caroline Mutoko is not going to stick mediocrity. The radio queen has now bought a brand new Toyota Land Cruiser V8. The spanking new car has raised questions as Caroline Mutoko once claimed on air that she would not spend money buying expensive cars again. RELATED: Radio Africa Fires HR Boss, Kathy Kageni, Mutoko to Assume New Managerial Role She even wrote on her column how she was concentrating on bringing up her adopted girl and not buying expensive cars. Attempts by Radio Africa owned gossip blog Mpasho to write the story were thwarted after Caro summoned…

A niece of President Uhuru Kenyatta, Nana Gecaga, has now imported a maid from United Kingdom whom she is paying Ksh 600,000 in salaries. Nana, Jomo Gecaga’s sister, has a young baby and is living with the recently elected Mathare MP Steve Kariuki. So friends of the couple were recently overheard discussing the pay of the maid recently. Close friends of the couple were surprised that Nana could import a British maid to come and teach her child manners, grammar and good etiquette when there are enough Kenyans who can work with the salary and do a better job. Now…

Most Kenyans had never heard about the Political Parties Liaison Committee (PPLC) until this week when Magerer Langata chose a PPLC forum in Nakuru to launch an attack on his party leader and employer.According to the Political Parties Act, the PPLC was formulated through consensus among all political parties and IEBC to be a forum for consultations and consensus building between political parties, on the one hand, and the Electoral Management body on the other so as to ensure free, fair peaceful and transparent elections.Last week, when he publicly attacked his own Party Leader and went on to support the…

Devolution is here with us. There are many instances where the devolved funds are changing lives but there are also few instances when the leaders of the counties just pilfer funds/ A case in point is the project where Nyeri County built a public toilet for Ksh 3.8million. The toilet doesn’t look like it cant even take Ksh 2 million but the county has declared spending such amount on the Whispers Park sanitation project. Residents have questioned the spending with some calling it a very blatant abuse of public resources. The toilet in pictures

There are many incidences of reverse or just discrimination in the country. Many places you go to, you might never get service if you are too hip for the place. Especially when you are black. This happened to the Naswa TV show crew who were doing many episodes of their popular show in many places in Nyanza province. So after the long week, on Thursday the crew decided to retire to Imperial Hotel in the lake side town of Kisumu to sort their own issues. The team led by Maxwell decided to pay the 6 man crew their pending allowance.…

When the Sunday Standard of put up a page one birthday wish for President Uhuru, every media professional in the country was surprised with the kind of things happening at the Moi family owned media house. The weekly newspaper bent so low that all were amazed. It never happened even when Moi was the President. Apparently Sunday Standard Managing Editor Enoch Wambua is an aspiring politician planning to contest in his home county Kitui, hosted Interior Cabinet secretary at a function in Kitui. At the Harambee at Kavindoni Secondary School, Joseph Ole Lenku brought the donations of President Uhuru and his…

The speaker of Baringo County assembly, Kassait Kamket,was last night arrested at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport after being linked with the Kapedo Massacre. The speaker was on his way to Istanbul Turkey when he was arrested. It is not clear if he was going for official or personal matters. The speaker posted this message on his Facebook account Post by Kassait Kamket. Four people including three police officers, were killed after raiders ambushed them on Saturday afternoon in Kapedo in Turkana County. The General Service Unit (GSU) officers were on a mission to rescue other police officers  who were being held hostage…

Jubilee Government is product of bargained deal of a group of influential technocrats, securocrats, capital owners and industrialists who were fearful of the ascending to power and growth of support for the political left. A government of this kind remains paranoid and fighting shadows perpetually. To survive, the Jubilee Propaganda machine has developed first the bigoted narrative of the supremacy of the Kenyan people and their betrayal by both foreign aggressors (foreign embassies) and internal enemies (opposition and civil society) who had infiltrated the country. Blame and or scapegoat of Kenya’s problems and for any of the Jubilee’s failures on…

A row is brewing over the real winner in the wheelchair category of the Standard Chartered Nairobi marathon. Anthony Mundia, a standard eight pupil at Joytown Primary School for kids with Physical disabilities in Thika, allegedly won the race but his win was snatched because he didn’t use a wheelchair from some association. According to various witnesses, Anthony was even handed the winner’s tag at the finish line but that changed when leaders of some association went and snatched his tag without explaining much to him. Nowhere in the race brochures and pamphlets having all the rules did the race…

Is the ICC targeting a second Kenyan journalist for leaking confidential information to the public? The courts latest protest delivered by 3 judge bench last week points to a frustrated court which is not going to stop prosecuting the small fish to tame the key suspects. Already, word around the ICC corridors is that the court is so unhappy with journalist Oliver Mathenge of Radio Africa’s The Star that they might have him indicted over the leakages. Presiding judge Kuniko Ozaki, Robert Fremr and Geoffrey Henderson cited two instances in which journalist Oliver Mathenge quoted classified documents directly. This has…

Some regular and administration police officers are now complaining that some of their colleagues from Pangani Police stations gave guns to a G4S guard manning the Equity Bank Eastleigh branch. The police officers claim that the officers went against the police service’s standing orders giving guns to civilians without proper authorizations. The G4S guard seems to have been taking photos with the guns. These actions have not gone down well with other police officers who believe that professionalism lacked in the handling of the gun. Now the police officers want their colleague and the G4S guard punished for the misdemeanour.…

Multichoice is now giving up that it can’t control the illegal cable distribution of its content. Despite frequent police raids and prosecutions, the Pan-African Premium TV content provider has not managed to dent the impact of the distributors on its network. The distribution business is still very common in urban areas with connection fees for premium content being as low as Ksh 1,000 per month. The one of payment for connection and low monthly subscription fees to the illegal connection guarantees subscribers access to premium content which is now viewable unless you can cough the over $85 which DSTV charges…

The Armed Forces Canteen Organisation’s shop inside Moi Airbase in Eastleigh has this evening been burnt to ashes. The fire which has not been explained is now being blamed on terrorists by soldiers inside the heavily guarded compound. Fire started around 5pm on Sunday and razed the facility till around 7PM when it was contained after gutting down everything inside the shop plus the premise. The shop which serves only the military and their family with subsidised goods, is a famous meeting point for the military officers. Now some soldiers from the garrison believe that the fire was not an…