Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

Rumors of poor pay or lack thereof have continued to cause trouble for one of Kenya’s renowned comedian Daniel Ndambuki alias Churchill. In the past, Churchill has been accused of poorly paying his acts. In 2017, for example stand up comedian and radio personality Rapcha Sayantist called out the laugh industry chief executive for underpaying the comedians. This is after the untimely death of one of Kenya’s finest Emmanuel Makori Nyambane alias Ayeiya Poa Poa. An irate Rapcha said that Ayeiya died poor and so will other acts performing at the Churchill Show. This time around it is a section of…

Chinese phone manufacturer Huawei is on the spot for selling faulty gadgets on Jumia, which do not conform with set standards. Several social media users have expressed distaste with the Chinese company for flooding the market with ‘reject’ devices, most of which have been installed with fake operating softwares or programmed in Chinese. One Facebook user running an account by the name Mobbid OG says that he had to return a gadget he bought online, after it failed to function properly. “I bought Huawei Y prime last week from Jumia and I’ve returned it for a refund. It was switching…

Safaricom, admittedly, has deep pockets. It positions itself as a true champion of Kenyan interests, presenting communication solutions to the whole nation of people including those living with less than a dollar a day income. But the same Safaricom is one that denies the same people of Kenya, that same Wanjiku, a chance to make a change in their lives with their incomes by charging them high costs for communication costs. The same Safaricom, as recorded in the now commonplace conversation amongst consumers, rapidly eating up into their airtime and internet bundles that deplete at rate that baffles many Kenya…

Kenya Police officers manning the Safaricom installed National Surveillance System is allowing a group of individuals and companies to monitor and track Kenyan motorists for non official police cases. According to three victims of the practise, the police officers have been selling location details of motorists to criminals, auctioneers and other well connected individuals who later use the bought information to kidnap and harm the individuals. In one case, a United States International University Africa lecturer, Dr. Dorothy Njoroge was a few weeks ago tracked through the strategically located CCTV cameras while driving along Mombasa road, stopped by a uniformed…

Despite being the only project seemingly flourishing under the Jubilee regime, a lot is happening behind the scenes at the Huduma Centres that could see the noble project collapse. The problem at the award-winning project are deep rooted, affecting mostly suppliers and employees. Staffers at the secretariat have not been paid for the month of October, with some having been locked out of their homes but still come to work, Kahawa Tungu has learnt. Staffers in other departments, even those in scandals are paid promptly, unlike those in the Huduma Centres. Also, allowances to conduct any outreach or work related…

Safaricom is on the spot for stealing from their subscribers who use the Mpesa service to buy airtime or data bundles for other subscribers, who have airtime debt popularly known as Okoa Jahazi. Several customers have come out to complain about it, though Safaricom defends itself on basis of ‘terms and conditions’. Whenever a customer buys airtime for another subscriber, who in this instance has Okoa Jahazi debt, he/she is deducted total amount inclusive of the debt. For instance, a Facebook user Lovely Lovel bought another customer data bundles worth Ksh50, but to her shock she was deducted Ksh275 from…

Former AG Githu Muigai and current Kenya Airways CEO Michael Joseph are the two shortlisted candidates for the position of Safaricom board chairman. According to insiders on the board, Michael Joseph was thought to be a qualifying candidate since he can offer guidance to the company with his experience as former CEO and founder of the giant telecommunication provider currently riddles with cases of corruption and kickbacks. Githu Muigai has been pushed by the government which thinks that it is a soft-landing for him after he was ambushed to resign from this position as AG a few months ago. Current…

A group of Toi Market traders fears that there will be serious ethnic clashes in the area if the push by a group of cartels to stir commotion in the market is not contained immediately. According to the traders who fear being named as they will be targeted by the cartels, no government leader is willing to properly and conclusively address the issue as the DC, DO and Chief all have ganged up in support of a cartel of land grabbers led by one Pagal Bashir and Gidos Hamza who are eyeing the Nairobi County land which the traders are…

Stephen Jennings has been at the centre of the struggling Tatu City project, with a fight ensuing between him and the Kenyan investors, the likes of Stephen Mwagiru, Nahashon Nyagah and Vimal Shah. However, little is known about his background, especially in investment of mega projects such as Tatu City. According to sources, before coming to Kenya, the New Zealand investment banker aim to ‘invest’ at Tatu City was to look for a way to repay heavy debt and losses he had incurred in Russia. He wanted to oust the Kenyan investors from the project, sell it, pay his debts…

Sylvia Mulinge is set to be announced as the new Safaricom’s Chief Customer Officer(CCO), while the Director of Regional Sales and Operations, Steve Okeyo, has been sacked from the position after refusing to report to the new COO. Ms Mulinge will be in charge of Consumer Business, Sales Operations, Customer Service, Brand Marketing & Experience, Digital and Market Development. In the restructuring move, Charles Wanjohi  was confirmed as Director Consumer Business Unit reporting to the Chief Customer Officer. Another post of the Chief Business Development was created which will comprise of Strategy & Innovation, Regional Expansion and Knowledge Management (Research &…

The international investors in the Ksh240 billion Tatu City project have won a longstanding shareholding dispute with their Kenyan minority shareholders. This is after all the matters pending in the court of appeal were concluded yesterday (Thursday). Lawyer Issa Mansour earlier yesterday withdrew the last of the petitions at the Court of Appeal. This was due to another Appeal bench which had already absolved the foreign directors. Being led by businessman Stephen Jennings of an alleged resistance to sanction an audit of the firm’s financial records. Appellate Judges Roselyne Nambuye, Asike-Makhandia and James Otieno-Odek agreed with lawyer Issa that the…

Kenya 15s rugby team, Simbas, are stranded in Nairobi as their trip to France looks impossible as the Cabinet Secretary Rashid Echesa and his Principal Secretary Kirimi Kaberia continues to ignore and show cold shoulder to the club officials. According to anonymous sources, the club presented a budget which was approved in March 2018 and updated the Ministry of Sports which even gave approval on August 15th and further confirmed on 9th October that the team will be given Ksh 15 million to travel to France for the World Cup qualifiers. Now it looks like the 40 member team will…

The University of Nairobi is staring a bleak future under the watch of Prof Peter Mbithi and the chancellor Vijoo Ratanssi. The duo having milked the institution dry. Information reaching Kahawa Tungu reveals that the institution is having a big hole in its cashbooks. This has left the institution indebted to suppliers and workers. Mbithi has thus resorted to overdrafts to pay salaries and suppliers, but things have gone from bad to worse. This is after several banks blacklisted the once prestigious institution from overdraft facilities, leaving him at crossroads. With a new council in place, Mbithi is a…

Kenya Airways (KQ), the perceived Pride of Africa, has been the talk of the town/country in the past few days, for its newly launched direct flights to New York, USA. Today, the return flight landed at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) from the John F Kennedy Airport (JFKA) in New York. Everyone is showering praise to the new development, but has anyone paused to think how the cash strapped KQ will manage the trips? Save for helping find some positive news to cheer the country, that flight makes zero commercial sense. First, lets take the fuel aspect. For a…

A senior journalist attached to the Presidential Delivery Unit Mr Nixon Nganga, is on the spot for coercing journalists to give multibillion Tatu City Project a positive coverage. In a press briefing held on Friday by one of the foreign investors Stephen Jennings, Nganga required that all journalists present send him the stories before publishing. Previously, Nganga worked with Citizen TV before landing a job at the Presidential Delivery Unit. Tatu City has been on the spot over tax evasion and money laundering accusations, with pioneering shareholders Nahashon Nyaga and Stephen Mwagiru filing petition. Read: Plight OF Kenyan Shareholders At…