Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

The murder case facing media personality Jackie Maribe and her fiancee Joseph ‘Jowie’ Irungu took a dramatic twist today after mainstream TV stations switched off live coverage of the case proceeding. In what looked like orders from above, leading TV stations in the country switched off the live coverage of the case without explanation to the viewers. The trend started with Citizen TV, where Maribe is an employee before KTN News followed suit. K24 followed minutes later and started airing sports news. Noting the presence of political heavyweights in today’s bail hearing, it looks like the media houses acted from…

Online retailer Jumia is on the spot for issuing a customer, Marvne Elly, with an invalid warranty after he bought an LG TV set from them. In a Jumia Order No. 303796368, Elly bought the TV and all was well until it malfunctioned mid this month, prompting him to take it to the LG centre for repair. To his shock, he was told that the warranty is not valid in Kenya, meaning he had to bear the losses. “I made an order to purchase a TV set on Jumia platform, and on order I was promised a two year warranty. Last…

Online betting firm Sportpesa could be harbouring plans to enlist on the Nairobi Securities Exchange in the first quarter of 2019. Despite the Sportpesa CEO denying that the firm is planning to go public, Bloomberg reports that SportPesa has already appointed Nairobi-based Kestrel Capital East Africa Ltd. as transaction advisers for the IPO. Kestrel Executive Director Andre DeSimone declined to comment on the matter, leaving it to speculation. However, sources well placed in Sportpesa quoted by Bloomberg indicate that plans are rife, and it is only a matter of time before they are actualised. “SportPesa is a privately owned company and…

According to multiple sources, the late Monica Kimani was detained at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) on the day of her arrival from Juba (South Sudan) for at least 3 hours. She was detained by undercover police officers after getting alerted by KAA and Customs officials that the late seemed like she was carrying more money that she declared. The amount she was carrying was not cleared but sources close to the investigations indicate that it is not less than Ksh 50 million, but in US dollar denominations. Monica Kimani’s Dead Body as shown in the prosecution file While this…

Liquid Telecom, formerly Kenya Data Networks is on its knees and could soon be in the books of history due to poor management and unethical practices, insiders say. According to insiders who spoke to Kahawa Tungu on condition of anonymity, the company is experiencing several hurdles in doing business caused by gluttonous heads of departments, who have hired their incompetent relatives and friends, swamping the company into a financial burden. “The heads of departments are using their positions to hire staff from their communities and mostly relatives. Up to 95% of a department consist of people from one tribe. For…

A number of employees at the Postal Corporation of Kenya have written to the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI), the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Ethics and Anti-corruption Commission concerning massive corruption and embezzlement of funds at the helm of the state body. In the letter copied to the National Intelligence Service (NIS) and the Head of Public Service, the corporation has been leasing land belonging to top officials, which is of no benefit to it but to enrich a few individuals at the management level. “Out of our genuine concern, we strongly express our support and solidarity with you and the people…

Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) Nurse Mildred is now hospitalised after getting assaulted by 5 relatives of a patient she was attending to but later died. According to hospital sources, Nurse Mildred Akinyi was breaking the news to the five relatives (one male and four females) when they pounced on her with kicks, blows and even hitting her with a blunt object leading to multiple injuries. The nurse is now hospitalised in the casualty wing of the national referral hospital being treated for multiple internal injuries after the fracas. The assault happened on Saturday at 10am. READ: PWC Employee Throws Self From…

Popular education blogger Peter Amunga was on Tuesday afternoon around 2pm kidnapped while leaving the popular Lavington Mall, seriously assaulted by men who crushed his fingers and then dumped in Thika. According to people close to the blogger, he was kidnapped by men riding in a Toyota Fielder station wagon and Subaru cars which blocked the matatu he was boarding after meeting his friends at Lavington Mall. The kidnappers claimed that they were police officers and Amunga was under arrest for unspecified crimes. He was driven until Methodist Guest House where a hood was put on his head while the…

Things are not well for the DSM housed People Daily, where Hudson Wainaina seats as the head of photography department for Kenya’s free newspaper. Wainaina is accused of mistreating a photojournalist attached to the paper, Charles Mathai, who works at Milimani Law Courts. In a letter to the Human Resource office seen by Kahawa Tungu dated September 28, Mathai says that Wainaina threatened him to an extend of exercising physical violence against him. “On Monday, September 24, the said Wainaina shouted threateningly at me jabbing twice on my limbs after he had called me to his desk in regard to…

Former TV host Jacque Maribe and broke playboy Joe ‘Jowie’ Irungu will now be charged with murder, the Director of Public Prosecution has revealed in a statement. According to the statement from the DPP, Noordin Haji, Jacque and Jowie will be charged with murder contrary to section 203 as read with section 204 of the constitution. Jacque Maribe’s life had been on the fast lane while hanging out with the who is who and trying to show that she also exerted power and influence, something which drove her greed and point to a lifestyle she was trying to portray but…

A Ugandan maid accused of killing her employer and a three month old baby has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder. Jackline Auma appeared before Justice Fred Ochieng at the Kisumu High court and was charged with killing Elizabeth Ochieng and Baby Benedict Ojoth in Shauri Yako estate on June 6th 2018. Auma underwent mental assessment and was cleared to answer to the charges. Prosecutor Peter Mui opposed a plea for the accussed to be realsead on bond saying she was a flight risk since she fled to Uganda after allegedly committing the offence. Justice Fred Ochieng granted…

Reports from those close to TV host Jacque Maribe indicate that she is pregnant with murder suspect Joe “Jowie” Irungu’s child. Jacque who is set to be charged with the crime of being accessory to the murder of Monica Kimani, is contemplating what she can do as Joe Irungu and herself faces years behind bars in case of conviction. She is still hopeful that being release on bail might offer her an avenue to handle the pregnancy. Jacque Maribe not only hid the crime from the police but also helped Joe Irungu burn his bloodied clothes and took him to…

Joe Irungu is being held in connection to the gruesome murder of Monica Nyawira Kimani who was found dead in her apartment along Dennis Pritt road in Kilimani. According to our sources in South Sudan and Nairobi, Monica went to South Sudan on the invitation of her father who was popular as the go-to newspaper vendor in Juba, serving the Kenyan community with their favourite newspapers without fail. Bishop Paul Ngarama sold newspapers for many years until 2013 when he invited members of his family over to Juba where they trooped in on a bus. Through the newspaper vendor, and…

A commissioner of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), Mr Paul Mwaniki Gachoka, is on the spot for doing transactions on a grabbed piece of land in Githurai 44. The land in question belongs to Miaraho Limited company owned by John Godhard Mburu, a former Nairobi Provincial Commissioner during President Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel Arap Moi leaderships. Through his law firm, Mwaniki Gachoka & Company Advocates, the lawyer is the recipient of all payments from prospective buyers on behalf of Hydro Developers Limited, the company offering the land for sale. The 302 acre piece of land has been subdivided, with a…

Evidence in possession of Kahawa Tungu’s investigative desk shows that under the leadership of Dande, Britam made billions of shillings through partnerships with other companies, but not without challenges. Before being flushed out, Dande and his team grew Assets Under Management (AUM) for Britam from Ksh17 billion to Ksh50 billion in three years. However, this was not without challenges, posed by the owners of the company and members of the Board of Management (BOM). When the four joined British-American Asset Management Company (BAAM) – a subsidiary of Britam Group-, they found a company that was good in mobilising funds through…