Author: Cyrus

Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto are astute political schemers. The two scheme without substance but with well-packaged propaganda that stirs likeability. Theirs is game of cards. They are very good at public relations and capturing public perceptions. Their handling of communication and connection with their support based is not really about core issues affecting people. Theirs is manipulation mastery of false hope and promises. They have mastered the art of dominating opponents and public space. They have identified social target groups, well-choreographed narrative and deploy all necessary tools to achieve their goal. They know timing, space and opportunity matters greatly.…

Bharti Airtel has today announced the appointment of Topyster Namasaka-Muga and Venkateshwaran (Venkat) Ramakrishnan as the new head of Airtel Money and finance director respectively for its operation in Kenya. Topyster was a principal product development Manager – M-Pesa at Vodafone Group Services, UK.  She comes with over 8 years’ experience in the telecoms industry, 5 of which have been with Airtel Kenya and a year within Airtel Africa. She started off at Airtel as an IT project coordinator/support and development engineer and grew within the ranks to become Manager, Management Information Systems.  She then joined Airtel Africa in 2010 as Senior…

A man was recently arrested for filming some Kenyan Policemen who were attempting to extort bribes from a Matatu crew. The Parklands based traffic policeman and woman were unhappy with the man for filming them. When they found out the he had a foreign accent, they decided to intimidate him and tell him that it was wrong in Kenyan law to film a police officer but the man stood his ground telling them that nothing is wrong when a public officer in uniform is filmed while he is wearing a uniform and on duty. Man immediately before arrest; The man…

Twitter users have been enraged this week with Akon after The Source reported him performing in a bubble in Eastern DRC city of Goma, apparently to avoid contracting Ebola.  While Akon prides himself as being African who is proud to be one, he is also vulnerable to viruses which kill like Ebola. When Akon performed in a large outdoor space neighbouring Goma airport, it was something of an homecoming. But some believe that he might have used the bubble as a smart way of not allowing himself to be exposed to the virus. But this is not the first time Akon has pulled…

It seems like the Tujuane TV show host duo of  Yvonne Bulimo and Malonza Chege are set to exit NTV after getting a better offer elsewhere. The duo seems to have been given in to the Kenyatta family overtures. The show is rumoured to be ending its ten months stint at NTV after getting a better offer from a network believed to be K24, but not definite. K24 ratings have never improved even after poaching over 35 employees including Engineers from Citizen TV. Sources at NMG intimate that the Twin Towers based network has banked on Churchill Show, Tujuane and Larry…

There is some storm brewing in the Twin Towers. Several journalists have recently resigned from the company following the introduction of new job structures and promotion of well connected personalities at the expense of performance and delivery. Now around 6 senior journalists including TV presenters also plan to exit as they claim that Linus Gitahi is spending all his time running his businesses and not improving the NMG. Some of those who have left are; Owino Opondo who resigned last week and is set to join the Center for Parliamentary Studies. Former parliamentary editor and the immediate Editorial Training Coordinator at NMG. Owino resigned…

She was known to be one of the most unfriendly workmates at Procter and Gamble. Employees hated Victoria Ndinda Kieti-Chesire with a passion. She bossed on them like there was no tomorrow. Many complained that she didn’t respect that but Victoria being the boss, she had her way. The P&G South Africa office which oversee the African operations waited for proper complaints. It seems they got it and now, Victoria is no longer the Brand Operations Group Manager Sub-Sahara Africa expansion markets. She was called to South Africa this week and told to immediately resign to save the face of the…

Trouble is brewing within the precincts of national assembly following the recruitment of around 300 parliamentary support staff who MPs claim they don’t need. The new complementary staff members who reported to work between May and August have not been assigned any duties as the long serving staff members believe that they will be replaced. The PSC employed officers including Clerks , Researchers , Media Relations officers, Accountants, Finance Officers, Hansard Reporters, and Security officers , all under different salary scales. While the new officers were promptly deployed to various departments within bunge, most of them are yet to be absorbed…

Ken Mijungu is an NTV reporter who need to research on his subjects well. His shallowness is only second to the madondo (Sorry brother-in-law) thing’s. He decided to ask why Kenyans never celebrate “real heroes” in an apt but poorly researched and executed NTV fit only for the 3-Stones TV. The only person satisfied with the piece is Ken himself. In the piece which came about after almost nobody in the country recognised World Marathon record breaker’s arrival in the country. Dennis Kimetto who broke the World Record in the Berlin Marathon was received by nobody else beyond his close family and…

A group of New Zealand rugby Sevens players are currently stranded in Nairobi, Kenya following a dispute with the kenya Rugby Union. After giving the Kenya 7s players a hard time, it seems that KRU is now targeted at embarassing the foreign nationals who honoured the invitation to come and play in the Safaricom 7s. According to one of the players, up to 11 New Zealand Metro players are not able to fly out of Nairobi after participating in the Safaricom sevens tournament as Kenya Rugby Union claim that each team was to fly themselves out as KRU only catered for…

Buoyed by the success of the Huduma centres, the Kenyan government is planning to launch a portal where citizens will be able to access various government services online. The eCitizen portal which is almost complete and now accessible here will give citizens access to Ministry of Lands, Immigration, KRA and other government services. Some of the services which will be ready immediately after the launch are business name search and registration, various marriage related services from the AG’s office, driving license services like test booking and application for renewals together with others. You can now register through the portal and…

3 students of St Jude Napara Girls in Bungoma are scared and traumatised after their were injured by the school’s principal, Beatrice Masika. The Principal who is known to lock students in her office or school lab and cane them, is now facing problems from local leaders after she locked Brenda Makokha, Veronica Sakwa and Nancy Saisi. The three students are now being treated at Bungoma District Hospital with deep wounds and scars all over their bodies after the caning. The students were locked in the laboratory to hide the wounds but local politicians including Hon Wechuli and Hon Kipkut got…

Veteran politician and former Westlands MP, Fred Gumo, has a son called Mayo Gumo who is known to own one of the leading vehicle showrooms in Nairobi. The young man recently imported an Audi Q7 Limousine which he has been flossing with in almost all his handles on social media. It is not clear if the vehicle is for sale but in the various pictures circulated by Mayo online, he is seen sitting in it and sharing the good things he owns. Check him on Facebook  here Audi Q7 is a crossover luxury SUV which has been in production since…

The driver of thee Range Rover alleged to be owned by Fidel Odinga was one Robert Gichuru who is the son of former KPLC MD, Samuel Gichuru. Robert was alleged to have borrowed the car from Fidel to run unknown errands. Robert who studied in the UK is also a brother-in-law to Citizen TV’s Julie Gichuru with him being the younger brother to Julie’s husband, Anthony Gichuru. It is Julie who also read the script revealing the accident. This is the second time Julie has been forced in a corner regarding such incidents. Earlier this year, Julie refused to read…

A Kenyan working as a home care nurse in USA’s Oklahoma City was Friday arrested on a terrorism charge Friday after he allegedly threatened to behead a female coworker at a nursing home. Jacob Muriithi was swiftly detained at Bellevue Nursing Home in Oklahoma City after his unnamed colleague filed a police report against him on Sept. 16th. Jacob is alleged to have commited the offence on Sept. 13th. Apparently Jacob made the threats after the female colleague negatively commented about a star of David necklace which he was wearing. Muriithi allegedly told the victim he was Muslim and affiliated with ISIS, and that they…