News

The many deaths in my family

Published

7 months ago

November 13, 2022

Ruth Matete, a celebrated performer, has discussed in detail how she, her mother, and her father all lost their husbands.

Matete spoke about her late mother’s terrible marriage to an abusive guy who also happened to be her stepfather in a post on her Instagram account.

She said: “My mother died when I was 8 years old. My stepfather beat her so badly and she was taken to the hospital because of the injuries. I was still living with her and my stepfather. So when she realized that she may not make it out alive, she called my father and asked him to come get me.”

Matete, a winner of the fifth season of Tusker Project Fame (TPF), also disclosed that she was born out of wedlock and that she spent most of her childhood with her mother.

“My dad came and took me with him to the city. This is where I have been since then. My mother later died a few months after I came to Nairobi. My father was married to another woman here in Nairobi who also later died. (My parents both got married to different people),” she said.

She said that John Apewajoye, the father of her daughter, also passed away two years ago.

She went to recount her late husband’s final moments, who died from burns after a gas cylinder exploded at their home. Less than a week before the terrible accident, the couple—who had only been married for four months—found out they were expecting a child.

“While in the ambulance after the accident, he told me he wasn’t gonna make it. I thought it was just fear. So I kept encouraging him that he would be fine. He told me all he wanted me to do (I felt like it was those Afro cinema movies). He gave me the name of the baby regardless of the gender. Toluwa is a unisex name. Gave me a message for his sister and brother as well,” she recounted.

“God gave him two weeks. In those two weeks, each time I went to visit him, he would ask me ‘Oh! Am still here?’ It’s like he waited for death. I felt like he didn’t fight to live. But anyway, I will never know fully,” she said.

Entertainment

Journalist Hassan Mugambi set to wed former video vixen Mwanaidi

Published

3 hours ago

June 9, 2023

KSN Reporter

By Wanja Waweru

Hassan Mugambi, a reporter for Citizen TV, is getting hitched to Mwanaidi Shishy.

A celebration that the journalist will host will be attended by close relatives and friends.

Friends of Mugambi congratulated him on his impending nuptials on social media.

His colleague and fellow journalist Ayub Abdikadir sent him well wishes as he started his married life.

Former video vixen Mwanaidi now runs the Mama Nilishe restaurant in Kilimani, which serves Swahili food.

Mugambi is a well-known journalist who has won numerous honors over his career.

May Allah guide you @hassanmugambi as you embark on a solemn contract on your wedding day. @RashidAbdalla @OsoroSylvanus. pic.twitter.com/rKbvYOdDBG

— Ayub Sh Abdikadir (@AyubAbdikadir) June 9, 2023

His career began at the Kibra radio station Pamoja FM, and it later moved to CGTN, formerly CCTV.

Later, he was hired by K24, a channel owned by Mediamax, before switching to Citizen TV in 2017.

Mugambi won the Outstanding Media Security Investigative Award for the year 2019.

He received praise from the Protective and Safety Association of Kenya (PROSAK) for his excellent and dependable reporting on security issues in the nation.

At the Nairobi Security Expo in 2023, he received the Security and Crime Reporter of the Year 2023 honor.

News

Eric Omondi flies to London for lunch to prove a point to Moses Kuria

Published

6 hours ago

June 9, 2023

KSN Reporter

By Wanja Waweru

The Trade Cabinet Secretary Moses Kuria has received criticism from content creator and comedian Eric Omondi for admitting that he regretted supporting his tour to the United States seven years ago.

Eric, who has argued forcefully against the Finance Bill 2023, has gone to London “for lunch” to show Mr. Kuria that he can afford to pay for his travel expenses.

The comedian pleaded with the CS in a post on his Instagram account not to accept the planned taxation of content producers so that they may also travel in Business Class without receiving financial help from politics.

“After hearing Moses Kuria speak, I decided to take myself to London just for Lunch and also thank God for how far He’s brought us. Thank you bwana Kuria for sponsoring my tour seven years ago but please don’t tax content creators 15% so that they are able to tour on their own,” he said.

Mr. Kuria criticized Eric on live television on Wednesday at the Citizen TV-hosted Big Conversation debate for criticizing the government regarding the draft Bill.

He expressed sorrow over what he claimed to have funded Eric for a vacation to the US seven years prior, claiming that he might have instead had fun with the money.

“I have heard Eric Omondi claiming he is a youth. Seven years ago I used my own money to take him to America to expose him and right now, according to the way he is talking, I wished I used that money to party because it doesn’t seem like he learned anything from it,” Mr Kuria said from Belarus.

Health

Kakamega family demands justice after botched treatment leads to 3-year-old losing five fingers

Published

9 hours ago

June 9, 2023

KSN Reporter

By Wanja Waweru

A family from Bukhaywa village, Lurambi Constituency, Kakamega county, is calling for justice after their three-year-old son’s right hand was amputated of all the fingers due to improper treatment.

“My son had a burn on his left hand and was in a stable condition when we took him to hospital, but because of the doctor’s negligence, all his right fingers were cut off and he is disabled now,” the victim’s father Mr Zephaniah Likavo said.

Winnie Auma, the mother of the victim, claimed that the nurse was an intern who gave her son an incorrect drug injection. When she witnessed how the son’s body responded, she reported the incident to the doctor, but nothing was done about it.

“My son was crying in pain and the colour of his hand changed. I wondered what was happening and reported to the doctor, but no action was taken. Instead, he said it was normal for such a reaction to happen,” she said

The family claims they received word shortly after that their son’s fingers would need to be amputated in order to stop an infection.

The management of the hospital refuted the accusations, claiming that the family had moved their son to a different facility where his fingers had been severed.

“We treated their son and there was a challenge in finding the vein in the hand, so it affected his fingers and later they wanted a transfer to another hospital for specialised treatment. That’s where they amputated the fingers,” the official said.