Thursday, April 05, 2007

Nation Sex Scandal: After The Muiruri Arrest, What Options For The Major Players?

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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Kalonzo Musyoka’s About Turn On The Steadmann Polls

In the recently released opinion polls which rated Kalonzo Musyoka a poor third position in the presidential race, his supporters swiftly dismissed it as a skewed poll but some political analysts (not this blogger) agreed with it in totality. Kalonzo too told the press exactly what his supporters had said.

In other words what Kalonzo is telling us is that when the Steadmann poll has him ahead of Raila, it is accurate but when he is third, it is inaccurate. Can you believe that?

For starters, nothing much was known about Musyoka until towards the end of last year when the media and the public put the soft speaking Mwingi North MP under a microscope and found out he had enough skeletons in his closet just like any other politician.

Kalonzo Musyoka's popularity got a heavy beating when one of the daily papers revealed the story of how he and his lawyer partner got involved in a land deal where they committed fraud. He was the deputy speaker when he got involved in the deal in question and missed jail by a whisker.

Things got worse when it was revealed that Musyoka is a big pretender who gives Kenyans the impression that he is a deeply religious person yet he is heavily involved in witchcraft activities and is almost always accompanied by a witchdoctor known as Wa Maiyo who is also a nominated councilor in Mwingi.

As if these facts were not bad enough for his image, Musyoka shot himself on the foot over the past two month's as it emerged he was the stumbling block in ODM's quest on finalizing the modalities to be used in electing its presidential candidate. It was Musyoka and his team, which boycotted sessions of meetings over trivial differences forcing the meetings to be postponed several times.

It also has to be appreciated that Musyoka has done little if not nothing in fighting for democracy in this country and on the contrary, he was an avid supporter of the tyrannical Moi era that was notorious for the abuse of human rights including denying wananchi freedom of speech.

Musyoka however has something going for him, his age and youthful looks. Being in his early 50's, he is relatively young and could still appeal to the millions of youth voters and even if he doesn't make it this time, he can always look forward to 2012 when the next elections will be held after the much awaited one later this year.


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