Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

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…

The National Gender and Equality Commission could be an organ on its death bed, only existing by name and not by action. The problem is deep-rooted at the NGEC leadership comprising of Dr Florence Nyokabi (Acting Commission Chair), Dr Gumato Ukur (Commissioner) and Sora Katelo (Acting Commission Secretary/CEO). Dr Nyokabi contested for the Woman Representative position in Nyeri County in the 2017 general elections but failed. Despite emerging number four during the interviews, she was picked in place of Prof Maria Wambui Nzomo who had emerged first. Prof Nzomo, despite her impeccable credentials and track record on governance was rejected…

It has emerged that there could be more than meets the eye in the Kenya Power graft saga that has implicated top officials of the firm. Trouble started when an audit report on labour and transport contractors KP1/9AA-2/OT/58/PJT/16-17 was done and leaked to the public to implicate junior staff members on May 25. On the same week, the implicated junior staffers were fired, in what seemed as a cover up for senior staffers. Following several complains, the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) ordered the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) to investigate this case. The report adversely mentioned Geo Capital, a…

The leading TV stations which had switched off the live proceedings of Monica Kimani’s murder case against Jacque Maribe and Joseph Irungu have resumed coverage of the case. The stations switched off the live coverage almost simultaneously, without providing an explanation to its viewers on why they switched of the live coverage. The TV stations resumed after almost an hour, in which they had been airing ‘other news’. Read: Orders From Above? Mainstream Media Switches Off Live Coverage Of Jacque Maribe, Joseph ‘Jowie’ Murder Case The case entails media personality Jacque Maribe and her fiancee Joseph ‘Jowie’ Irungu, who are accused…

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…