K24's Poached News Anchors For Wearing Mitumba High heel Shoes-- Sunday Nation Now Disses UHURU’S K24...

K24's Poached News Anchors For Wearing Mitumba High heel Shoes-- Sunday Nation Now Disses UHURU’S K24...

In what some interpreted as 'looking for a tweef', Sunday Nation yesterday published an article dissing K24's re-branding last week. In Screenshots section of Buzz magazine, writer Boniface Mwalii comes out with guns blazing to ridicule the president-elect's TV station.

The writer takes issue with the fact that almost the entire news crew was 'ripped from Citizen TV’s employee roster'. He then comes short of calling them cheap, by saying they were dressed in second hand shoes. 

However, Mwalii's bone of contention is the fact that the station poached everyone they wanted, but forgot to poach the one person they needed; the graphics guy. 

"Then it turns out the one guy they couldn’t poach was the only one they really needed to hire, that is, the graphics guy. I mean, think about it. How much does the graphics guy at Citizen have to be paid for K24 to opt to retain such crap graphics than to up his offer?" he writes.

That article has generated a lot of mixed reactions from readers.
NTV journalist Larry Madowo, who has been poached, re-poached and poached again, had this to say.

Not exactly a glowing review. But those (of us) who live in glass houses don't throw (too many) stones

Saddique Shaban wondered whether the writer had missed an opportunity (to get poached). He wrote,

This hurts. Smacks of a missed opportunity or sore grapes. 

Here are some thoughts from other readers.

Naona mmenza ka tweef na @K24Tv  - Manuel Ofishal

This was long over due #someonetell @K24Tv - Asin Yuri

Haha, hit below the belt on this one. Lmfao - Simon Swach

Why was there no such article when KTN raided ntv? - Aisha

Here's the full article.

The great American rock band Bon Jovi sang in their classic jam, “the more things change, the more they stay the same”.

Well, it appears someone at K24 was reading from this script when they promised ‘big’ changes in the rebranded station.

First, was it just me or did anyone else get the impression that the words “March 18th” had been preprogrammed into the zombified minds of the entire news crew?

It was as if that was the only thing they could remember from their ‘past lives’. If the aim was to ensure Kenyans never forget the said date, well, they succeeded alright. In more ways than one.

Beginning with the fact that more than half of the entire news crew was practically ripped from Citizen TV’s employee roster complete with their mitumba high heels and 2¾ piece suits.

It’s like watching an episode of 2 Broke Girls then instead of Max, they have Dr House being mean to Caroline all the time. There’s nothing really different about the outcome but you still feel cheated about it.

Then it turns out the one guy they couldn’t poach was the only one they really needed to hire, that is, the graphics guy. It was like going back in time to when VoK was labelled as futuristic.

I mean, think about it. How much does the graphics guy at Citizen have to be paid for K24 to opt to retain such crap graphics than to up his offer? Kids, this is where you consider re-evaluating your career choices.

And why in the name of Kronos was 9 o’clock news 30 minutes late on the day when everyone paid more attention to K24 than the sukuma wiki on their dinner plates? Was it so that they could show us their entire programme schedule for the next month? I guess it’s just as well.

The only glimmer of hope (pardon the irony) came when the lights went off as a reporter was telling us (for the 73rd time) how things were going at the official launch at the National Museum. You would think that for once KPLC would make good use of our taxes and replicate the same at the studio but alas, haven’t they always excelled at disappointing?

I guess at this point the only thing left to do is feign acceptance and live with our bad choices as a people for the rest of eternity. Or we could all just hang ourselves.

© nairobiwire.com

Bensouda under fire for dropping Muthaura case

                                                                        ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda has been criticized for promoting impunity by dropping the case against former head of the civil service Francis Muthaura.
Bensouda withdrew the charges against Muthaura on the grounds that witnesses expected to testify in the case had either been killed, intimidated or coerced to recant.
 One of the trial judge Chile Eboe-Osuji said if there was evidence to the witness killings, coercion and intimidation, the right thing for Bensouda to do was to institute administration of justice charges against the perpetrators, not drop the case.
 “In my view, where there is credible evidence connecting a defendant to the sort of conduct, the consequence should not be withdrawal of the charges against him. Lest, other defendants begin to view those conducts as passports to impunity,” Eboe-Osuji said in his 'separate concurring opinion' on the judges decision to withdraw the charges against Muthaura which was released by the court last Friday.
 Bensouda had told the judges that witnesses who may have been able to provide evidence concerning Muthaura's role in the events of 2007 and 2008 had either been killed or had died since those events.
 She said other witnesses refused to speak with the prosecution and that the government of Kenya had frustrated her investigations into Muthaura’s exact role in the violence.
 “It came to light after the confirmation hearing that a critical witness for the prosecution against Muthaura had recanted part of his incriminating evidence after receiving bribes. In the circumstances, we felt we could no longer present this witness as a reliable witness and dropped him from our witness list,” Bensouda told the judges.
 Judge Eboe-Osuji said while in principle the court could not compel the prosecutor to proceed to trial with a case which was insufficiently supported by the evidence available to her, he found it 'very troubling' that the prosecutor was seeking to justify her lack of evidence arising from the killing of witnesses, coercion and bribery.
Last month, Bensouda had claimed that representatives of either Muthaura or his former co-accused Uhuru Kenyatta had bribed a crucial witness whose exit precipitated the dropping of the case.
“Witness 4 revealed in the May 2012 interview that he had been offered, and accepted, money from individuals holding themselves out as representatives of the accused to withdraw his testimony,"Bensouda said last month when she announced her decision to drop the testimony of James Maina Kabutu.
The witness provided emails and bank records that confirmed the bribery scheme. "In light of these cumulative revelations, the Prosecution considers that it is not useful to call him as a witness,” Bensouda said.
Muthaura’s lawyer Karim Khan has vehemently objected to the claims of witness intimidation, killings or coercion and dismissed them as a "smokescreen' during a press conference held by Muthaura on March 14.
 “This is smokescreen from the inescapable reality that the case collapsed from within. The rotten underbelly of this case is a lying witness, just one witness whom—in the prosecutor’s own words, not mine—was a liar.”
He said if it were true that the accused bribed the witnesses, a reasonable prosecutor would prosecute all those involved in the act. In his Friday statement, Judge Eboe-Osuji appeared to concur with this view when he said Bensouda had not informed the court of these events and the supporting evidence when she applied to drop the case against Muthaura.
 Article 70 of the Rome Statute criminalizes giving of intentional false testimony, corrupting, influencing and intimidating witnesses, retaliating against ICC officials and soliciting bribes from them. Anyone convicted faces a prison term not exceeding five years or a fine.
Kabetu has not been charged and neither has Muthaura nor Uhuru. Yet another witness—Samuel Kimeli Kosgey— who was supposed to testify against deputy president-elect William Ruto recanted his testimony in a similar manner and said he was no longer interested in being a witness now or in the future.
Kosgey —otherwise known as OTP 8— claimed that he had been intimidated into exaggerating some of his responses to the questions by the Office of the Prosecutor.
 He denied he had visited the homes of Ruto or his co-accused Joshua wrap Sang as well as attending a meeting at "Molo milk plant' in Gilgil where the planning for the post election violence was discussed.
Kosgey also denied attending an ODM planning meeting held in Kapkatet and which Ruto is said to have attended. "I was a PNU member and the chairman of the party for the Mosop constituency. How could a known PNU member attend ODM political rallies or meeting to plan chaos?” he said in his statement withdrawing from the case.
He claimed these are just a 'few instances' of the false nature of the allegations that the ICC had attributed to him and which the ICC prosecution had procured before hand and wanted him to 'support."
The allegations were strenuously denied by Bensouda's office through trial attorney Cynthia Tai who wrote to Kimeli’s lawyer Paul Gicheru asking for a meeting last week.
Gicheru rejected her requested for a meeting saying his previous letters and affidavits to Bensouda's office were “self explanatory and we do not therefore have anything useful to add.”
-THE STAR

ROBERT  ALAI summoned by CID for LEAKING SECRET MEETING by SC judges, IEBC and KIMEMIA.

News just in indicates that Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) mole and blogger Robert Alai Onyango has been summoned by detectives from CID, for malicious tweets on his twitter account.

Alai was summoned on Monday morning over a tweet he had written implying  that Judge Isaac Lenaola, IEBC CEO Oswago, Head of Civil Service Francis Kimemia and IEBC chairman Issack Hassan met on Saturday to influence the outcome of the Supreme Court.

Alai, who is a sympathiser of Prime Minister Raila Odinga, is famously known for spewing malicious and hatred information through his Twitter and Facebook accounts.

Detectives said they will carry investigations and Alai will be arraigned in court once investigations are over.

More to follow….

SHOCKING: TNA Was IEBC According to this Electronic Footprint

SHOCKING: TNA Was IEBC According to this Electronic Footprint

The data me and few other persons have access to show a shocking manner IEBC and Jubilee used the electronic data to rig the elections. Using data provided by a source at Kencall, TNA was IEBC . TNA used 21 data entry clerks at to enter data both in its server and the server of IEBC through a backdoor entry provided by Kencall.
List of Data Entry Clerks (Names blacked Out to protect them from harm)

The server (KENCALL IP: 196.1.26.40) running Windows Server 2008 gave access to the 21 data entry clerks employed by TNA. The same data entry clerks, receiving calls from TNA agents, entered data into IEBC database. The IEBC database had 16 columns including a column called User_ID which had who among the 21 data clerks entered the data. The TNA database called (MARKET RACE) was also hosted on this same server but it lacked the User_ID column.
Rights of the the 21 clerks on the IEBC database

Rights of the the 21 clerks on the TNA database

Data entered by the 21 clerks on the TNA database

Same data mirrored on the IEBC database

MAC addresses and LOGs of the phones used to call the 21 data clerks based at Kencall

When CORD discovered this and went to the media (Raila’s press conference around 11am on March 16th), Kencall proceeded and shutdown the IEBC database leaving the Market Race database (TNA database) running because the name could not raise suspicion by anyone.
IEBC database shutdown log

Kencall Hosted IEBC and TNA Data on the same Server
#KenyaDecides: IEBC Chairman Admitted on LIVE TV that Their System Was Hacked
Safaricom’s Statement Regarding IEBC’s System’s Failure is Unconvinci

GITHU MUIGAI SUPPORTS UHURU KENYATTA..He should never be enjoined in the Petition...Cord says

GITHU MUIGAI SUPPORTS UHURU KENYATTA..He should never be enjoined in the Petition...Cord says..

This is why Raila’s lead lawyer opposes enjoinment of AG as Amicus in Supreme court case...

Mutunga invites the public to participate by watching the proceedings in Supreme Court. Says, whatever decision emerges from this petition should be peacefully accepted. Thanks the media for live coverage..

University Lecturer Caught Pants Down -SEX for Good Grades

University Lecturer Caught Pants Down -SEX for Good Grades

The video you are about to see details footage of a Nigerian University Lecturer Caught Pants Down -SEX for Good Grades.

This is How Conmen Operate in Nairobi..Watch out when you are at Kencom,OTC and Afya Center...

This is How Conmen Operate in Nairobi..Watch out when you are at Kencom,OTC and Afya Center...

admin im one mad person n i want to expose something that is going around in town and nipoa watu kichanuana. there is a gang of conmen who operate maimly around otc,afya center,ambasadda,old bus station hizo areas tu. so it was on monday nimetoka classes naenda home.nachukua hizo hoppa kencom then this old mama approaches me sa si unajua hali ya kuwait kwa line unabrowse kiasi,she tells me ati amekam n she camt reach his son mwemye amekam kuons.alianzs na kisapere nikamshow me sielewi then akaanza swa.apparently she came in town to visit his son na hajui how to reach him.akanitolea a paper enye aliandika s no.akasema nimkol.i couldnt suspect anything coz huyu ni nyanya age of my nyanya calling tbat no.it just went unanswered.then we tried over n oveer ikajam so me nikamwacha gari ilishakam nikaenda.later did i know this old mama is part of the con gang.

sasa kwa gari haws wasee wswili they were sitted 2 seats ahead of me wanabonga in high tone ati kuna mwizi amemwibia phone tao na ati huyo mwizi ni fala bado ameacha 4n on,yule mwinfine akasema ni ukweli?ebu lete no nikol si wakapiga saa hizo watu wanawaangalia.then kucol ile no men phone yanfu si ndio inalia then huyo niga wanakam ati si unaona ndio hii phone yangu.washaaleta drama ati mwizi mwizi ati ndio hii phone yangu me niko confusswd hizo times b4 nijue watsap wasee wamenirukia na beatings hata wasee wengine kwa gari wakajoin.then konda akasimamisha gari ati hataki damu kwa gari yake wanitoe wawnde waniuwe nje. then hao wasee waksnihanda but just then mother fulani akasema ebu ngojeeni akatoa gun later i realised ni polisi akasema nani 4n yake iliiviwa yule msee akaitika ujue hiyo time ana phone yangu akaambiwa a switch off then on.huyo boiz akasense danger kuswitch on hajui pin hapo sasa nikaambiwa niwke pin kama ni yangu mimi sinikaingiza poa.hao wasee walipewa beatings mbaya huyu mother akawipa bangles sasa wale waswe walinibeat kwa gari wakaanza kunionea huruma.kuna tena mother mija akaamua kunipeleka hosi juu nilikua bruosed kiasi.

so what made me even more mad jana jio nilopoga beshte yangu afya center then the same same nyanya akakam na ile vako imahina hakunotice ni mimi thoe ni friend yangu alimshow amsave no.this time nishajua wats going on nikakanyagia.boy akapiga hakuna msee anacatch huyo nyanya akaduck then dakika kiasi hata b4 apande gari huyo nyanya cjui imekuaje amekam ka analia ameibiwa simu na alikua na wasee wengine wako like leta no yako tupige.same trick 4n ya beshte ikalia ujue hiyo time watu wametusarroung then huyo nyanya anasema ati ni 4n yake.wale wasee wake washakam wanataka kumvunja then nikashout wacja kwanza phone izimwe then nyanya aweke on ka ni yake.si akashindwa na wale boys venye waliona
wakahepa.nilishikwa na hasira si kwa ubaya but niliwahi huyu nyanya bare moja mbayar nikamshow alinikon juzi. anyone alikua afya center jansa around 7 aliona drama.

so admin chanua wasee wajue this gang is using old women.wen u cal the no it goes unanswered but your no remains.hawa watu will panda the same mat umepanda they watch yu closely n on the way watasema mtu ameiba 4n tao ns bado iko on then they call rem they have your no which u did wen u tried to help the nyanya.so wen they call 'their stolen' phone ni no yako wanacall.then nobody will believe you pgone yako itachukuliwa na beatings utapewa. people be cautious with helping just anybody.guard yuor info kama phono no kabisa.then watu wa mob justice b4 u beat someone listen n find the truth first unaeza ua an innocent person. let peoplw learn.