Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

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…

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…