Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) have given MTN, MultiChoice, Shoprite and other South African companies in Nigeria to stop their operations and leave the country within a week. In a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the two sides said that the companies should be out of the country until South African government ends the killing of Nigerians in South Africa. NANS president Danielson Akpan, urged Nigerians living in South Africa to cancel their stay, while advising South Africans in Nigeria to leave Nigeria as well, as the group plans to start treating…

Embakasi East member of Parliament Babu Owino wants four drug dealers arrested. In a letter dated August 8, the legislator urges DCI George Kinoti to bring to book Steve Oduk, Innocent Samba, Betty and Abby Hera. According to Babu, the four have been supplying drugs; cocaine and heroin to school going children. The buyers are most pupils from Kilimani Primary School. In the letter copied to the president, deputy president and inspector general of police he accused Oduk and Samba of selling drugs and human trafficking as well. Oduk, in particular, is said to have at some point kidnapped and…

Businessman Chris Kirubi was flown to the USA on Saturday when his condition worsened. According to sources close to his family, the businessman has not been feeling so well lately forcing him to be re-admitted in the expensive USA hospital he has been attending. READ: “Don’t Link Me with the Dubai Gold Scam, My Issue is Different” – Jared Otieno As his condition worsened, the businessman has been facing challenges running Capital FM where employees have openly taken the opportunity to loot its coffers. Within a short period, the businessman has been forced to fire two CEOs who have been variously…

Airtel Kenya is struggling with hard economic times with an accumulated loss of over Ksh68.09 billion, following a Ksh2.89 billion loss in 2018. Following the loss, the Airtel’s internal auditor Deloitte doubts the company’s ability to continue operating, terming it “a going concern”. Airtel’s liabilities and assets gap has widened in the last two years, from Ksh2.86 billion in 2017 to Ksh8.14 billion currently, flushing it to the red line. Read: 75 Percent of Telkom Kenya Employees to Lose Jobs in the Merger with Bharti Airtel In 2018, the company’s operating, finance, administrative and distribution costs shot to Ksh22 billion…

Close to 575 employees are set to lose their jobs in the new structure of the merged Telkom Kenya and Airtel companies. Through a town hall and notice to all staff members, the merged entity will see only 225 staff members absorbed from the Telkom Kenya end while the remaining 575 will have to find employment elsewhere. Telkom Kenya has 800 employees. READ: Brand Kenya Boss Mary Luseka Sent on Compulsory Leave With today’s town hall, the company has given an effective 30 days notice to staff members who will not be absorbed to see how they can best be compensated…

As Oracle Technology Systems Kenya bids farewell to their Machiavellian and grotesque Country Leader Corine Mbiaketcha-Nana to finally regain some corporate sobriety, there is plenty to commiserate and little to celebrate. She had exaggerated her importance for far too long. Corine’s scorched-earth policy has impacted the standing of practically all major multinationals in the technology industry, casting a heavy shadow of mistrust for years to come, with likely stagnating if not shrinking revenues across these global players regionally. This is without taking into account the institutional damage of the Oracle brand occasioned under her watch in influential establishments such as…

It has emerged that pay-as-you-go energy for off-grid customers company M-kopa Solar used at least Ksh18.9 million on work permits for foreigners to Kenya in a period of two years. According to a financial statement in our possession, the company used USD133,929 (approximately Ksh13,392,900) in 2017 and USD56,065 (Ksh5,606,500) in 2018 to secure permits for foreigners to work in Kenya. The company currently has all of its executive team made up of foreigners, most of whom are from the United Kingdom where the parent company is registered. The CEO is Jesse Moore, assisted by James Maclaurin while Nick Hughes is…

Elgeyo Marakwet Senator and Senate Majority Leader Kipchumba Murkomen’s appearance at KTN’s political talk show CheckPoint has been cancelled. The cancellation has allegedly been instigated by Baringo senator Gideon Moi, in what is seen a political move in the 2022 political realignments pitting the Rift Valley leaders. The region has been torn in the middle, with loyalties to Moi and the Deputy President William Ruto, as the two battle to win clout in the region through media houses. Standard Media Group which houses KTN is said to be majority owned by the Moi family. Expressing his distaste on Twitter, Murkomen accused…

Mediamax head of radio department Joyce Gituro has confirmed her exit from the media house, citing personal reasons. Ms Gituro was responding to a fan on her Instagram page, who inquired whether rumours that she had resigned were true. “Yes Jeff nimeondoka Milele kwa sababu za kibinafsi (Yes Jeff, I have left Milele over personal reasons),” she wrote. Read: Singer Weezdom Eats Humble Pie, Apologises To Bahati Over Betrayal This is the second time the radio host is quitting. She first resigned a few months after joining the media house following personal differences with acting Mediamax CEO Kenneth Ngaruiya. However,…

Over 2,600 Former Telkom employees have threatened to take to the streets over Sh7.2 billion unsettled compensation awarded to them in 2017. A four member Retirement Benefits Authority tribunal (RBA) then, established that the retrenched workers were underpaid by the Trustees of Teleposta Pensions Scheme and Provident Fund. Their lawyer Titus Koceyo told the RBA tribunal comprising of Kakai Cheloti, Veronica Owenda, Job Momanyi and Muthomi Thiankolu that the communications body was the sponsor of the scheme and that the formula invoked in calculating the terminal dues was wrong. Read: Telkom Set To Upgrade Network Capacity In Five Towns To…

DT Dobie management is on the spot for hiring foreign ‘expats’ for jobs that can be done by Kenyans, hence depriving them opportunities in their own country. On the top is the list is the managing director Mr Ian Middleton, who allegedly has been rejected in several companies outside Kenya. He is a former executive of motor dealer CMC Automobiles in Tanzania, where he also worked as a chief executive. Mr Middleton has also held positions of general manager, Tata Motors in Zambia and managing director, Alliance Autos Nigeria Limited. Another ‘expat’ is Mr Alexander Helfritz, the sales director termed…

Professionals in the Machakos County Government are now asking the Engineering Board of Kenya (EBK) to intervene and rid them of a fake engineer who has reigned tall in the engineering department of the county. Edmond Munyae Luusa was employed by the county government in 2014 through a family friend named Rosemary Munee, who was the then Secretary of Machakos county public service board who fraudulently put so many people on posts whose qualifications didn’t match. Ms Munee’s deeds were discovered and she was interdicted for sometime but was later reinstated at some other department. Count officials made attempts to…

A lawyer was on Wednesday arrested by officers guarding the Times Tower where Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) is located. According to a tweep identified as Alamin Kimathi, the advocate and former journalist Soyinka Lempaa was apprehended for taking a picture of the building. https://twitter.com/alaminkimathi/status/1153965423769116672 Soyinka has apparently been taken to the Anti-Terror Police Unit (ATPU). Kahawa Tungu understands that the lawyer was arrested for capturing this particular image; The ex-KBC journo was awarded a Ksh2,052,764 compensation for unfair termination of his employment and failing to raise his salary upon promotion. In his ruling, Justice Mathews Nduma found that the termination…

Former Kenya Revenue Authority Commissioner General John Njiraini has been shortlisted in the race to fill the National Land Commission (NLC) Chairman position. In a notice on the local dailies, Njiraini and former Nyeri Town Constituency Member of Parliament Esther Murugi were among 11 successful candidates scheduled to appear for interviews on Monday, July 29. Others are Mwenda Kiambi Makathimo, Robert Kipkosgei Kilimo, Patrick Silili Adolwa, Dr Humphrey K. Njuguna, Prof Paul Musili Wambua, Naomi Wagereka, Tiyah Galgalo Ali,Gershom Otachi Bw’Omwana and Dr Hussein O. Farah. Read: Former NLC Chairman Muhammed Swazuri Claims Commission’s Pressure Caused Wife’s Miscarriage The position…

Standard’s Kenya Television Network (KTN) is grappling with lack of talent and leadership, even as the new managing editor Ellen Wanjiru is accused of incompetence. According to inside sources who reached out to Kahawa Tungu, the newsroom is almost dead and it is only taking the initiative of individual journalists to keep it going. Since she replaced Joe Ageyo at the Mombasa Road based station, she is said to have lost touch with her juniors and she is ‘rolling’ with who is who in the political arena. Read: Kenyans Troll Sarah Kabu For Advising Kenyan Youth To Fundraise For Weddings…