Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

Citizen TV’s Jeff Koinange on Friday laid to rest his elder brother, David Mbiyu Koinange. In a post shared on social media, the Hot 96 FM presenter remembered his brother noting that he will be missed. “Farewell, my Brother! We LOVED you but God LOVED you MORE!! You Will be MISSED!!” Jeff wrote. The elder Koinange passed on last week in a tragic road accident. It is said that the deceased’s car rolled along the Mau-Narok Road several times leading to his demise. On the material day, Mbiyu was apparently driving to his farm in Mau-Narok from Nakuru town. Jeff…

Fly540 founder and CEO Don Smith has been accused of mistreating pilots to the extend of withholding their salaries for months. According to a former pilot who reached out to Kahawa Tungu, Mr Smith possesses a don’t care attitude and any pilot who tries to ask for his/her dues is shown the door since he (Smith) believes he is untouchable. Some of the pilots go for even up to eight months without pay. For instance, the former pilot who contacted us, Mr Francis (not his real name), says that he went for eight months without pay and whenever he asked for…

Employees of Kenya Maritime Authority (KMA) are exposing Shipping & Maritime Affairs under the Ministry of Transport, PS Nancy Karigithu for the rot in the agency. Sources familiar with the goings-on told Kahawa Tungu that the state agency has been suffocating under PS Karigithu. PS Karigithu was the Director General (DG) of KMA for three consecutive terms, from 2006 to 2015. In January 2015 the then KMA Board of Directors, this writer understands, denied her request to extend her term in office by six months. The Board opined she had nothing new to offer after nine years. According to our…

Two Kenyan pilots and an engineer working with DAC Aviation (EA) LTD are crying for help after the employer abandoned them in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) with little support to sustain them. The three, Captain Isaac Newton Wafula Ouma, First Officer Cornelius Ndeche Oluoch and Engineer Simon Peter Kuruga, are currently held up in a hotel in DRC over six months unpaid bills. They live on well-wishers handouts. Captain Ouma told Kahawa Tungu that together with his colleague Oluoch they were deployed to DRC in October 2019 to work as Echo flights crew on behalf of DAC aviation.…

Car dealer Kevin Omwenga was apparently in disagreement with his alleged killers over a Sh100 million deal. According to the Nairobian, the deceased was unhappy with his perceived business partner and murder suspect, Chris Obure. Omwenga is said to have sealed the deal but did not receive his cut in cash. Instead, Obure purchased two cars and paid rent for his Galana Suites apartment to a tune of Sh1 million. On Thursday, the court heard that the deceased’s vehicles were fully paid for by, Global Jet, a company associated with Obure. In an affidavit filed to oppose the release of…

It is common practice in the political world that women and children are a no-go zone. But in Kenya, when the political talk heats up, it is the women and mothers who take the heat and many a time the insults. Take for example last week when Emurua Dikirr Johana Ng’eno said that Kenya did not belong to the first family, the Kenyattas, or the former first lady, Mama Ngina. “You are not Kenya and Kenya is nor Kenyatta’s or Mama Ngina’s land. This land belongs to 47 million Kenyans, you cannot run it as you wish,” the lawmaker said.…

Early this year, a section of the Waiyaki Way-Red Hill link wall collapsed with the Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA) Chief Communications Officer John Cheboi blaming it on burst pipes. Repairs were done but eight months later, the situation is not any better, with sections of the road now posing a public risk to motorists. Photos shared online show that sections of the wall have been washed away by rainwater while on other parts rocks and debris hang dangerously on the sides. The link was constructed by a Chinese company China Wu Yi Co. Ltd at a tune of Ksh3…

A section of Makini School Parents Teachers Association (PTA) have been accused of trying to sabotage learning process in the school. The representatives led by PTA Chair (Nixon Bugo), Deputy Chair (Catherine Oyondi) and treasurer (John Kabiru) have been accusing the management of the school of introducing the Cambridge Curriculum to run parallel with the Kenyan 8-4-4 curriculum. The Makini School has been running the curriculum since March 2020 alongside the Kenyan 8-4-4 curriculum on the online classes. In a letter dated August 17, the representatives through lawyer Julie Soweto said that the decision to introduce the Cambridge Curriculum was…

As officials from the Ministry of Health and the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (KEMSA) fight embezzlement of Covid-19 funds allegations, it has now emerged that the state agency’s board chairman Kembi Gitura played a big role in the award of irregular tenders. The agency is accused of having procured Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) at a double market price leading to a loss of billions with tenders said to have been awarded to companies, some linked to influential politicians, businessmen and brokers. Despite denying that the board does not micromanage KEMSA’s operations while appearing before the Senate Health Committee last Friday,…

Musician Trufena Wanjiru Gitu, popularly known by her stage name Fena Gitu has released a new song that has sparked lesbian rumours on social media. In her latest song dubbed Siri, the Steam hitmaker captures women romantically holding hands and touching each other flirtatiously and somehow promoting lesbianism. The song’s lyrics, usikiri siri and marafiki wataongea loosely translate to keeping it a secret as it would steer rumours from friends. https://www.instagram.com/p/CEbYZFMh5xb/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link When questioned about why she was promoting lesbianism in her new song during an interview with The Standard, Fena intimated that same-sex relationships are no longer a big deal.…

Tanzania’s Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (TCRA) has today fined internet service provider (ISP) Raha Limited Ksh 600 million (TSh 11.8 billion) for going against the communications regulations and reportedly using frequencies 1452-1482MHz without a valid license from the regulator. Raha Limited was fined a further Ksh 2 million (TSh 40 million) for failing to provide internet service, not submitting financial statements, failing to submit annual human resource plan and failing to re-apply for their expired license in time. Raha which recently branded to Raha Liquid Telecom is required to pay the fine within 90 days or further action will be taken…

Some of the medical supplies donated by Chinese business magnate Jack Ma to Kenya have never been distributed months after the consignment arrived in the country to help in the fight against the novel coronavirus disease (Covid-19), Kahawa Tungu has learnt. This is despite reports that a private facility benefitted from the donation meant to benefit public health facilities in the country fight the Covid-19 menace. Local media reports indicate that 12 positive airway pressure (PAP) kits that arrived in the country on March 24 are yet to be distributed. PAP is a mode of respiratory ventilation to assist a…

A nephew and niece of Mombasa Governor Ali Hassan Joho were involved in a major accident in the coastal city last night. According to sources, Abu Joho’s daughter Ummi Joho and her husband Haikel Osogo were the first to get an accident while they were from undisclosed function and being driven in a Toyota Landcruiser VX KBB 451T. After the accident, Yusuf Joho who is also a son to Abu Joho and brother to Ummi decided to respond very fast to the scene and had another serious accident just 150 metres from the previous accident. In the second accident, Yusuf…

The female Members of the County Assembly (MCAs) of Kisii today clashed after the nominated MCAs apologized to the male counterparts for ‘disrespecting’ them. In a special session today. the Speaker Kerosi Ondieki announced leadership changes to the Kisii County Assembly women chapter. This follows a protracted battle between Kisii women MCAs and their male counterparts, that saw five women de-whipped from various committees. The County Assembly has only one female elected MCA and the remaining 24 are nominated by different parties. Addressing the Assembly one of the nominated MCAs, Naomi Ronald, said that the female MCAs had been in…

Joseph Irungu alias Jowie went down on one knee and asked former Citizen TV news anchor Jacque Maribe to marry him. That was on June 30, 2018. So romantic was the engagement that Kidum was singing as the then it couple celebrated what would be their new life together. As fate would have it, they would not make it down the aisle. Later that year, the couple was arrested for the murder of a businesswoman Monica Kimani at her Lamuria Gardens apartment. That was the beginning of the end of the engagement. Speaking to Jalang’o on his Bonga na Jalas…