Author: Cyrus

Lucy Mwari Marete was banking all her money with the Equity Bank, Kenyatta Avenue, NAKURU branch. Something funny occurred to her 4 years ago, an Equity Bank employee named Peris Njeri Maina stole Ksh 167,000 from her account no 0310191773142 by transferring the money to one Peter Sambili. She was arrested, charged and released on a Ksh 10,000 cash bail. Nothing has happened in the case since then with all indications showing that the bank is blocking the conclusion of the case so as not to be held accountable. Lucy was forced to pay some Ksh 150,000 she owed the…

The figures released by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) confirms that the fear of industry stakeholders was right. All arrivals at Jomo Kenyatta International plunged by 12% in the first 6 months of 2014 by over 12 percent, from 2013’s 409,130 figure. The last year’s figure itself already reduced from 2012 to 358,977. Mombasa seems to be the worst hit with arrivals down by over 20 percent as a result of the entire charter operations being cancelled after the anti-travel advisories in the wake of security incidents at the coast. Thee security incidences at the coast saw even Lamu, a UNESCO…

India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has indicated that it will be opening an overseas office in Nairobi in the next two weeks. The party is also planning to launch offices in other East African countries like Ethiopia, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Zambia. This comes after the recent opening of offices in Canada, Denmark, and Uganda. “We have a very good structure and we are now appointing coordinators in each major town in Kenya to work for the overseas office of BJP,” Vimal Chadha, president of the Overseas Friends of BJP (OFBJP) in Kenya, quoted by IBN Live. There is a big…

Word is coming that Turkana Senator John Munyes was today shot by his regular bodyguard in an act which has been called an accident. It is not clear what really happened but the Senator was returning from a Peace mission in Kibis area of Lodwar when the incident happened. We are waiting for more information about this incident but the Senator is currently admitted at Lodwar district hospital.

NIS and Ministry of Foreign affairs officials who travelled with President Uhuru to USA were deeply embarrassed when Chinese hackers took control of CS Amina Mohammed’s email account, diplomatic communication between Kenyan envoys to different countries and other top secret mails. You know that this email thing is not really something which the ‘digital government’ loves but since it was such a campaign issue, they are trying to keep up with the KOT. The security of government website and servers in question as more of the Kenyan tech professionals continue to insist that the government host all its websites locally in…

K24 Kiswahili bulletin anchor Alphonce Oladipoh risks being arrested over a case in a Mombasa court where he is sued for child neglect. The anchor who has been in court regarding the case since 2011 (Case number 31) was sued under Children’s Act Number 8 of 2001. Alphonce was sued at Tononoka Court while working for Mombasa’s Baraka FM. The mother of the said kid is said to be a 28-year-old saloonist whom Alphonce is said to have met while she was only 18 years old. The child is now in class 3 and developed some health complications. The TV anchor is…

Kenyans in US capital, Washington DC, are happy that President Uhuru saw the need to remove the newbie Jean Kamau and replaced him with someone who is a bit much more conversant with diplomacy. The 2 Kenyans I spoke to intimate that Washington DC station needs someone who commands a presence, who understands the issues of the world and can speak intellectually about anything. DC needs a unifier who will not discriminate people based on ethnicity, race or political affiliation. This is something which was in Elkanah Odembo but lacked in Jean Kamau. Jean is socially-awkward, appears lost in conversation…

We have a new anglo-leasing like fraud being executed right from the office of the President. Business Daily recently ran a story of how some American security firm called Richmar and Associates is preparing to install a system which will see the government have the capability to monitor all communications in the country. A swift background check on the said security firm is returning more questions than answers. The strange thing is that the company doesn’t have much information about itself unlike other US security contractors which you can easily find background information of online. They are swimming on the…

Gor Mahia aka K’Ogalo recently unveiled a new coach. Frank Nuttall, a British, was unveiled in a ceremony held at Hill park Hotel in Nairobi. Though unveiled already, Frank is still on a 3 months probation. The most surprising this is that the club is paying him Ksh 600,000 during the probation period while the other Kenyans who are doing the donkey work are paid almost nothing. Looking at his LinkedIn profile, Frank seems to be a FIFA certified fitness coach. It is just not clear if he has ever coached any team to properly win a football match. Fitness…

Former Youth Fund boss, Evans Gor Semelang’o is said to be a smitten man. The guy is said to be dating a hot Mexican brunette called Lavinnie who, from the pictures, is a sexy, hot, bright and simple. She works for an oil and Gas drilling company based in Spain. Lavinne is being touted by friends of the fomer Youth Fund boss as the reason why Evans Gor Semelang’o dumped Citizen TV’s Janet Mbugua. Nobody knows Janet’s side of the story but looking at the way the story of the ‘Mexican Oil worker’ is being sold raises questions on the intentions.…

Kenyan government is still fumbling with this Orange Kenya business. They have had the French as partners for years and the business unit is not promising to make them any money soon. And the French are conniving even demanding money all the time from the Kenyan government. Bitange Ndemo used to get whatever he got from the French so he protected them. Fred Matiang’i seems to be enjoying it also. So it is being announced by the Board of Directors of Orange – Telkom Kenya – that Vincent Lobry is the company’s new Chief Executive Officer effective September 4, 2014. Vincent has come…

President Kikwete was in Nairobi for the AU heads of state meeting. He was accommodated at the 5-Star Villa RosaKempiski Hotel which is located in Westlands area of Nairobi. Mama Sarah Obama found time to visit the humble African leader in his hotel before he left for Tanzania. This is the photo they took.

When we told you about Caroline Mutoko and other Radio Africa key presenters trying to hang out with Ghafla bloggers so as to poach them, you thought it was not true. Now see. The group which is struggling with their digital properties and baked so much on the Trinc team to show them the way, are now banking on the former Ghafla employees to rescue them. The problem with PQ is that he overrates his judgement and so he might never get to succeed in this field because unlike conventional media, digital media is just not so easy to handle.…

The presidential car which was reported stolen has finally been found in Tororo Uganda, just 10 kilometres from Malaba border with Kenya. The vehicle was reportedly recovered on the side of the road in the Ugandan town just two days after it was reported missing. Now investigators think that the driver who claimed to had been carjacked was an accomplice in the robbery. It is said that the robbers brandished 3 almost new AK-47 rifles which makes the police rule out robbery incident. The official driver of the President Dan Machui was also carrying around Ksh 60,000 which was also…

A raging fire has apparently spoiled the opening of the reality show Big Brother Africa after the house located in Sesani Studios in Johannesburg was partially burnt. According to the event organisers, the event which was to kick off on Sunday, September 7 has now been cancelled until when another house will be found. The house has to undergo renovation with also the technical infrastructure and decorations built it. It might take longer than expected. Maybe the house didn’t burn down. Maybe the organsers are trying to market the show by pulling such stunts. M-Net and Endemol SA advise that…