Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

Long rumoured dating platform on Facebook is launching in the U.S.A with plans to roll out in 20 other markets before the end of the year. Apart from the U.S.A, Facebook dating is launching in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Columbia, Ecuador, Guyana, Laos, Malaysia, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, the Philippines, Singapore, Suriname, Thailand, Uruguay and Vietnam. A launch in Europe and other markets is promised to be live by early 2020. Facebook’s new dating product comes on the heels of the recent fine by US authorities due to privacy concerns while also other markets grow weary to the ability of…

Governor Mike Sonko has disputed claims that he spent more than 9 hours with investigators at the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) on Tuesday. According to the governor who spoke to KahawaTungu, he only spent 1 hour with the investigators who were interested in getting clarifications on why some errors were made while changing the garbage collecting companies in the county. According to the governor, he was invited to EACC to appear there last week but he couldn’t make it as he was in Dubai with his family for a private visit. He informed the EACC investigators that he’d be available…

With even strong opposition from a section of the civic society, KCB Group PLC is set to take up control of the National Bank of Kenya (NBK) and has upped the ante by naming the transition Managing Director. In a statement issued this morning, KCB Group Director of Regional Businesses Paul Russo is set to assume the role of National Bank of Kenya Managing Director for a period of two years to oversee the full integration of NBK with KCB. Paul Russo will lead the transition team that will report to the KCB Group Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director…

The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has today announced that it teamed up with the Multi-Agency team on illicit trade to destroy illicit excisable products with a market value of over Kshs. 1.5 billion at stony Athi, Kajiado County. READ: Njenga Karume’s Jacaranda Hotel On Auction Over Ksh257 Million Loan According to KRA, the products which were seized from various traders in Nairobi and could have led to a loss of over Kshs. 400 million in tax revenues. The products destroyed include 25,070 bottles of beer, 102,004 bottles of wine spirits packed in 82,538 bottles and 104,786 bottles of juice. Other goods…

A female politician based in Nairobi and owner of the popular Ruby Cut Gardens Restaurant along Chania Avenue in the upmarket Kilimani area peed in front of friends who accompanied a man she claimed to be her boyfriend to pay the dowry for her wife. The incident happened in Awendo, Migori County during the cultural wedding between Bonke Komwayi and his wife Felicitty. READ: Kanyari Regrets Losing Betty Bayo As Singer Plans Second Wedding According to sources well aware of what happened, Risper Adinda urinated in the main house of the mother-in-law of Nairobi Businessman Bonke Komwayi during the traditional marriage…

Kenyan socialite-turned-entrepreneur Huddah Monroe’s inbox is apparently flooded after she confessed on Thursday that she hasn’t had carnal knowledge for two months now. In an Instagram story, the lass, further, admitted that she has been drooling for 18-year-olds. “Haven’t had my conjugal rights in 2 months. Practicing self-control in this sinful world. 18-year-old boys looking like snacks, I want to eat them all. So if you see me rant as you all call it, instead of speaking one’s mind. Understand it’s a cry for help. LMFAO! F*ck that shit. I stay speaking my mind forever, I don’t care,” the bosschick…

A bishop at the Mightiest Prophet’s Repentance and Holiness Ministry strayed and is now no longer a clergy. Bishop Joseph Gitonga, lead pastor at the Kasarani branch was ex-communicated from the church on Sunday after details of sleeping with some of the female flock emerged. Gitonga was not only a minister, but was the go to man if one wanted to reach Prophet David Owuor. He has also been Owuor’s personal assistant and head of security in the past. Read: #Census2019 : Enumerator Gang Raped, Robbed In Kisumu “This is an official communication that you Joseph Gitonga are forthwith excommunicated…

Kenya’s export and brand promotion agencies – Export Promotion Council (EPC) and Brand Kenya – have been merged into a new entity called Kenya Export Promotion and Branding Agency (KEPROBA) and named Peter Biwott as the CEO of the entity. At an event presided over by Ms. Jane Mugambi, CEO, State Corporation Advisory Committee (SCAC), Biwott was unveiled at the ceremony which was also witnessed by officials from State Department for Trade. The move to merge the two entities was announced in July 2018. KEPROBA was established vide a Legal Notice No. 110 of 9th August 2019, which revoked the…

Mainstream media has halted live coverage of the Keroche case, in what is suspected to be orders from above, Kahawa Tungu has learnt. Kenyans who were following the case via TV were left hanging, minutes before the two were released on bail. Keroche CEO Tabitha Karanja was released on a Ksh10 million cash bail while the husband Joseph Karanja was released on a Ksh2 million cash bail. In the case, Keroche’s battery of lawyers led by James Orengo, Kioko Kilukumi and Irungu Kangata termed the case presented by the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) as “questionable” and faulted Kenya Revenue…

Sometime back, Keroche Breweries borrowed Ksh 5 billion from Barclays Bank of Kenya to modernize its factory. With such a loan, it’s always a good practice for the bank to require some political assurance as security for its investment. Tabitha Karanja wrote to Pres. Kibaki to honour an invite and open modernized factory on completion. Kibaki agreed to be the guest of honour. Powerful people in State House saw this schedule on the then President Kibaki’s itinerary. They didn’t like it. Tabitha was a threat to their wealth. That opening of Keroche’s new factory by Kibaki was silently removed from…

Artcaffé Group has announced the opening of its 29th outlet, Artcaffé Coffee & Bakery at the Kitengela Mall in Kitengela. The 130-seater establishment marks the second opening for the Group in 2019, having opened another one along Mombasa Road earlier this year. The Kitengela branch marks the foray of the premium outlet into the lower segment of the market. According to the Artcaffé Group, ‘Kitengela has become an attractive hub with its burgeoning middle class and manufacturing industry. Artcaffé will become a social hub for the local area and its environs, appealing to Kenyans in search of cosmopolitan experience. The…

The increasingly powerful office of the National Intelligence Service (NIS) has advised President Uhuru Kenyatta against promoting five of the eleven judges recommended by Judicial Service Commission (JSC) for the Court of Appeal vacancies. According to well-placed sources, the judges who have been known host gay sex-orgy parties, collect corruption proceeds as well as engage in other nefarious actions, have been blacklisted by the state security organ as the President attempts to reign in on the runaway corruption in the country. One of the judges who served in Mombasa for a very long time has been blocked from ascending to…

Kisumu’s popular eating joint TLC which is located in the middle of the town and owned by former Gem Member of Parliament Jakoyo Midiwo is being brought down tonight on orders of former Prime Minister Raila Odinga. The eating joint which is known to offer traditional delicacies like fresh tilapia from Lake Victoria, omena and athola is being brought down despite the July 12 notice given to it not expiring as indicated. The notice was to run for 90 days meaning that they were to move from the space by October 12. According to sources close to Kisumu County leadership,…

Revelations that the Kenyan government was conned in the construction of the second pipeline from Mombasa to Nairobi has continued to jolt KPC and Ministry of Energy officials even now with new information emerging over the deal clouded in open fraud. According to Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) insiders, the blame for the flaws in the pipeline and fraud should be laid at the door of former KPC Chief Technical Manager Elias Karumi. According to our sources, it is Elias Karumi who stole the original design for Line One (Mombasa – Nairobi) and used the same to win a lucrative contract…

Coach Sebastien Migne and the agency he is signed to, One Goal Agency, have been working behind the scenes to advance their course at the expense of the most loved Kenyan team, the Harambee Stars, Kahawa Tungu can reveal. To start with, One Goal Agency, whose CEO is one Joe Kamga arranged the team’s camp in France in the lead up to the recently ended Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt. Kenya, for the umpteenth time, failed to go past the group stage after affording just a single win against Tanzania and two losses versus finalists Senegal and Algeria despite…