This is one sex scandal that has refused to go away and it seems the disgruntled reporters at Nation center will not rest until editorial director Wangethi Mwangi, group managing editor Joseph Odindo and their play thing, Adhyambo Odera , Buzz editor leave the premises once and for all.
It has emerged that the Nation management is so desperate that they have instructed their security chief, one Mr Koskei to go around town bribing or threatening owners of back street publications like the Weekly Citizen not to carry stories on the scandal.
However, these moves have failed miserably as a new 'gutter' publication known as SPYMAN has come out boldly with extensive coverage on the slime that is said to have been going on in the Nation newsroom for several years now.
This blog has also been in the forefront of revealing the dirt at East Africa's top media house that is owned by the Aga Khan and was ironically started with 'holy' funds but has now been turned into a whore house.
What is most shocking is why does the trio hang on in spite of such damaging dossier about them. Mwangi, Odindo and Odera could be among the best-paid employees in the editorial department and resigning means they could lose lots of cash but again is the cash worth more than their reputations? For Mwangi and Odindo, tell me your marriages are not on the rocks if not on the brink of divorce.
Worse still, Imagine your teenage child reading about your sexual escapades in some newspaper or on the net. How do you explain it to him or her when you are confronted with the story?
For the human resource boss Helen Mbugua, tell me that her husband is among the happiest guys in town and does not feel a thing even when he hears the name of David Waweru, the Kenya broadcasting corporation boss.
Well, for the men involved and exposed in the sex scandal, the best thing you can do for your family and your country is to resign and rush to the church to repent. This might just save your marriages and life might go back to normal in spite of your being jobless for a while.
For the ladies, especially the married one's, doing the same thing is the only option but for the single one's like Odera , going for an AIDS test is a start and perhaps using her savings to undertake a parallel degree in a reputable university so that she won’t need to resort to desperate measures again to secure a job.
But the person who will have to shoulder full responsibility is the chief executive officer, Linus Gitahi who has handled the issue terribly ever since setting foot at Nation center and chances are that this scandal could end up doing him harm beyond his imagination.
I met Gitahi several years ago while he was a brand manager at a top pharmaceutical company and I got the impression that he is an intelligent and practical guy in touch with reality. Could I have been wrong?
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Hi Chris,
ReplyDeleteI enjoy reading your posts, however, i have a problem with the content architecture. It would be helpful if you had a section for 'Archives' with their respective headings like 'Election 2007' 'Nation media scandal' 'Kenya politics' or all a month's posts collated together - you get my drift. The posts are all over the place and sometimes reading them can be quite frustrating especially if you've missed on a previous post which relates to the current one.
Other than that, great job!!
Chris, this issue will not go. I do feel for the families of Odindo and Wangethi. I feel very much afraid that as someone in the media, these issues raised are 90% true, if not 100%!
ReplyDeleteIt is true that the talk about the philandering bosses at the nation has been going on.
Every one of them knows that. However, as you have said above, the best way to settle the matter once and for all is to have the involved resign.
I dont know anybody who will side by Adhyambo if she leaves the Nation. Maybe somewhere else she might find something different to do, but in the media. Nope!
A word of advice, spending time and money stopping the alternative media only makes the said 'gutter' press richer. It is conventional wisdom that the more you can buy, the more they will print to earn more. It is suicidal and shameful. Why the waste.
Some of those involved should be a little bit smarter.
Irt seems to me the mainstream media in Kenya is quite silent on this scandal and muiruri arrest. Its either that or Chris, this story does not exist. Why else would all daily newspapers, fm stations, tv channels choose to ignore this explosive headline. Why is the KUJ not making any noise about it. Is there a media cartel in Kenya who are conspiring to give muiruri a raw deal? Do you care about the welfare of young and vulnerable journalists who may get into the same fate as Muiruri or Adhyambo, just because of the chosen career? I consider Adhyambo to be a victim just as Muiruri is? Real culprits are the bosses at nation centre and vigilance house, that is if this story hold any water at all!
ReplyDeletewhat happened to this saga? we have eagerly been waiting the release of season V but wapi!!!! and the nationmediagroup.worldpress.com website has all the signs of having been tampered with!!!
ReplyDeleteWe need an expose of these rotten people!!! who think they are above the repproach of kenyans!
This whole stuff looks like a willing seller and a willing buyer.The market forces will bring an equilibrium or else the courts decide.
ReplyDelete-Obongita.
We are aware theta the likes of Orto Sori and Serah Kimani who are news people on NTV have flings/OH OR do we call it intimate relationship... of course what do you expect when they go on location to shoot and it is just them...plus they are not related?Its good to meet and become family while at work...
ReplyDeleteShame on them
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