Author: Cyrus

Respected Kenyan blogger, tech evangelist, and social justice activist. Cyrus is known for his hard-hitting articles and opinions disseminated through his Twitter handle @Kahawatungu or Facebook page (www.fb.com/Kahawatungu). Email: Editor@Kahawatungu.com

KBC has a restaurant inside the Kijabe Street compound called Abondoz. It is owned and managed by the Abondoz group which also run a similar restaurant in Luther Plaza along Nyerere Road. KBC staff who have been exclusively taking their morning tea and lunch meals from the restaurant have complained of food poisoning that they thought that something is very wrong with the restaurant. One staff member discovered that water served during meals is from the main toilet. A KBC journalist secretly photographed one Abondoz waitress collecting water in jugs ready to serve to patrons. Now the KBC staff are…

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Microsoft partnered with Digital Publishing firm Kagiso Media to launch its MSN portal in Africa. Barely an year later, the tech giant has shown that the African market is not as enticing as they thought and so they are making a full about-turn and fully exiting the market. Howzit MSN for Kenya and Nigeria are already in the process of being shut down while the South Africa property will be offline by June. Microsoft thought that it would use the HowZit MSN portals in Africa to penetrate the online advertising and search market so dominated by Google. Microsoft launched its…

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According to Daily News, British terrorist, Samantha Lewthwaite might be planning more attacks in Kenya targeting US and Western installations to avenge the death of Makaburi, her mentor. Abubakara Shariff Ahmed, also known as Makaburi (meaning graveyard), is said to be the person who recruited Samantha Lewthwaite, 29, to al-Shabaab. Makaburi was shot dead by unidentified gunmen wearing white robes while he was leaving Shanzu Law Courts within the Shimo La Tewa Prison facilities. Already al-Shabaab sympathisers have identified the 5 star Swahili Beach hotel in Diani as the CIA operation base in Mombasa and might be planning to attack…

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26-year old Kenyan-born professional boxer plying his trade in UK, Erick The Eagle Ochieng’ was fighting Paddy Gallagher in a  Prize Fighter quarter final bout in East London’s Bethnal Green arena. He collapsed after winning the fight forcing the organisers to have his challenger Paddy Gallagher replace him in the semi-final bout against Mark Doughlas. Mark Douglas lasted only 31 seconds with Gallagher who later lost to Johnny Coyle on points in the final bout. Ochieng’ left Kenya to fight for United Kingdom in professional boxing. Ochieng’ has fought 19 times winning 15 and losing 4 with no knockout defeat. He has…

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Kiss TV has a show called Live on Blast. The hosts are Model Aqua Bonsu’s brother Kwame Bonsu and Yvonne Chege. They are always backed up by DJ Hypnotiq (one of the best DJs in the country). So Yvonne and Kwame have chemistry on set but also in real life. They are so attracted to each other. Things got heated this past week that they decided to satisfy the Omieri and Nam Lolwe in the parking lot. They just didn’t realise that they provided free movie to the poor G4S guards who are always manning Lion Place 24/7. Now everyone…

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The son of the late Wahome Mutahi “Whispers,” Patrick Mutahi Wahome was last night arrested and detained in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. Patrick was to attend a conference in the country controlled by dictators. He never made an entry into the country as the intelligence of the regime already knew that he was someone who might give them trouble. He was arrested at the Bole International Airport over unspecified charges. Patrick is an author a fact which might have alerted the radars of the Addis Ababa despots to detain him. There is no free media in Ethiopia with any…

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Kenya Airways’ budget wing JamboJet is charging everyone who books their flight a Ksh 100 which is called Kenya Railways Fee. I don’t know which tax this is but it might be those taxes introduced to fund the Standard Gauge Railways through the back door. Meanwhile, President Uhuru is tomorrow expected to receive the first Boeing  787 Dreamliner plane. The aircraft is expected to touch down at 8AM at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. Tansport Cabinet Secretary Michael Kamau and Kenya Airways CEO Titus Naikuni are expected to be present during the reception.

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Claims have emerged through close friends of Deputy President William Ruto and Citizen TV political affairs reporter, Jacqui Maribe, that she is pregnant with the DP’s child. According to close friends of the two, the DP and Jacqui have been known to be close, a fact which might have made her score the EXCLUSIVE of the century, Interview with President Uhuru Kenyatta at State House. Jacqui formerly dated The Star journalist, Oliver Mathenge who is also very close to the powers that be. She might gained her footing through the relationship with Oliver. She is currently heavily pregnant. DP Ruto…

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Standard Group CEO sacked its Editorial Director Chacha Mwita and then had him escorted by watchmen out of the building. It was extreme humiliation for Chacha Mwita when he was even forced to endure being escorted by the building watchmen out of the premises. Chacha Mwita, Mark Kapchanga and Kipkoech Tanui were being blamed for portraying State House in bad light in the Ksh 100 million story. The story revealed how the President’s austerity talk was all empty talk as the cabinet wasted Ksh 100 million on a retreat while the government has all the facilities in Nairobi to accommodate…

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We EXCLUSIVELY revealed to you here that Teacher Wanjiku was moving to Citizen TV with her husband Victor Ber as the new director for her show Wanjiku the Teacher. The show was pulled off the air after failing to impress anyone at Royal Media. I wonder how anyone would have allowed such a show on air. The biggest surprise is that Teacher Wanjiku was never formally informed of the decision to withdraw the show from Citizen TV but it was communicated to her through a blog post. The greatest let down to Teacher Wanjiku is Victor Ber. He thinks that…

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Radio Africa is reported to be in serious talks to buy Ghafla. Already, the Group CEO Patrick Quarcoo has offered Ksh 5 million for 90% stake in Ghafla. This offer was like an insult to the Ghafla founder and his 88mph investors according to people close to Ghafla. Ghafla founders and investors demanded nothing less than Ksh 100 million. This came immediately after RAL bought 60% stake in digital media agency TRINC Media for a paltry Ksh 3 million. According to documents in our possession including quartely reports, PQ bought 20% for himself and had RAL pump in money to…

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Citizen TV and the entire Royal Media Services group were said to be so much against State House that no one would have that that what was witnessed could have actually happened so soon. In fact the government embarked on getting all “illegally acquired” frequencies from Royal Media as Pressident Uhuru Kenyatta’s own media group, Mediamax poached over 32 employees from RMS including many key technical staff. Things have changed and RMS seems to be the smarted media house here. Citizen TV has maintained and even improved its rating that the KTN, K24 and NTV trio combined would never match.…

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Uganda’s Gaetano Kagwa, best known for nothing more than having sex on LIVE TV was set to be the Head of TV at Radio Africa. He has reportedly declined the position giving no more reason than just that it is too much for his inexperienced self. Gaetano was set to replace Makari Kituyi who is currently serving his resignation notice and is set to go into private business. The down-to-earth but very hardworking Makari Kituyi is the elder son of the UNCTAD boss and former Minister Mukhisa Kituyi. When Gaetano Kagwa was announced as his replacement, most staff at Radio…

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President Uhuru was talking to police boss David KImaiyo and Deputy President William Ruto when he was taking his flight to Brussels, Belgium for the EU-Africa Summit. The President was caught on camera giving the two specific instructions but the most interesting was when he warned Ruto not to allow his wife to “mangamanga” (roam around). Watch below from 1:08 minutes;

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PIC A group of Kenyan entertainers are not happy with the government. The group which is composed of musicians and other key entertainers performed at the Kenya@50 celebration event at Kasarani in 2013 but have not been paid close to 4 months later. They believe that the President might not be well ceased of the matter and any attempt to contact the President through the official channels have been blocked by the Kenya@50 secretariat, Sports, Culture and Arts Ministry and some OP mandarins. The artists have reached out to the Kenya@50 secretariat but were told that there were no funds…

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Radio Africa Group owners have offloaded 49% of their stake to South Africa’s leading media group, Times Media Group (TMG). This gives the SA media giant a good entry point into Kenya’s bustling media sector. TMG was founded by Tokyo Sexwale and was formerly known as Johnnic Communications, then Avusa which means “to rouse feelings, to revive and evokes action.” The deal was inked on Thursday according to RAL insiders with shareholders of RAL each letting fo of equal ratio of shares to meet the TMG 49% stake requirement. The means that RAL is still majorly owned by the previous owners. RAL…

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