Breaking News: Date Rape Incident

I have just received an email from Marianne Briner (the victim of the date rape incident). I hereby reproduce it here;

After my letters to the CNN-Executives, Jeff Koinange has called me (he is at the moment in Ghana). We spoke for more than 1 hour on the phone. He apologized for the incident in London telling me that it was mainly based on the pressure he had been under after the problems arising from the Nigerian Report the week before.

I have accepted his apologies and we have agreed that we will continue having contacts on a strictly professional basis. He has offered to make a special Interview and a special Report in Inside-Africa during the next months connected to the forthcoming General Elections in Kenya. I have agreed to this.

I therefore want to confirm that I will not pursue the matter which happened in London. I will also confirm this in an official letter which I will send to the Executives of CNN.

Jeff Koinange is an excellent Journalist and I think Africa (and the world) needs somebody like him. He has a lot to offer - and I am the last to judge him on that regrettable incident in London, especially now when his wife is expecting their first child.

Marianne Briner

Ms Briner also took the opportunity to make a correction in my earlier report to the effect that Jeff's wife was not in London with him at the time of the regrettable incident. She had actually gone to pick up her husband in Joburg at the airport when the armed robbery incident happened.

Kumekucha says: After the trauma Ms Brinner suffered in London, she is very brave and a unique human being to have taken the decision that she has. Hopefully her going public with this in the first place will not have been in vain and those of us men who may want to take advantage of women with abandon, will in future think twice.

Accordingly this matter will not be pursued any further in this blog.

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