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| Mohammed Ali |
After a series of promo and building the anticipation into an expose which insiders say was going to expose dirty business that transpired at the ballot in the last highly contested presidential election which ended up in the supreme court following petition by the CORD leader Raila Odinga who felt short changed in the declaration by IEBC naming Uhuru Kenyatta as the winning presidential candidate.
You must have by now noticed the ads and promos into the anticipated Jicho Pevu documentary has since been seized. Investigative journalist John Allan Namu and Mohammed Ali in their line of duty had spent several months behind scenes investigating and coming up with a hitting documentary which in its nature is said to be poking at the reigning government.
On the first days when the promo of the programme was run,insiders tells NE that the top officials at the Mombasa Road based media house were urgently summoned by powerful state functions in what has now come out as a suppressing meeting to stop airing of the documentary. A key source based deep in the news-desk of KTN talking on anonymity grounds informs NE that there’s a silent rabble boiling to go off anytime soon,”these guys have spent endless times trying to come up with a hitiing piece and the meeting from the house in the hill seem to have brought in a misunderstanding. The boss(Sholei) seem to have had a change of mind after that meeting and he summoned Moha and John with clear instructions to edit out the documentary not to rub shoulders with the big dogs”
When summoned the powerful state functions warned that airing the documentary would bring a stand off hence threat to the national security,basing the arguments on the new oppressive media bill,Shollei has been held by the balls risking to lose millions in fines both to the journalist s and the media house,positions that insiders unveils to Nairobi Exposed.
But according the insiders,a defiant Moha who also doubles as the chief investigative reporting editor,he refused to make any alteration to the work they had both invested time and money on,”he was so much against it,these guys spent endless days and nights stitching this thing up and mkubwa(Shollei) was full aware then out from the blues he wanted to bow to the heat from above but Moha wont take any of that”
Moha had left NTV owing to forces and inturruption into his work that would see his pieces censored and tampered with before airing supressing his idependence and freedom which seemingly is paramount to him. Insiders reveals to NE that he agreed to sign back with KTN with the conditions that his pieces remain uncensored a deal that now the boss is finding hsrd to swallow.
Credible rumors from the media corridors indicates that the meeting held at the house in the hill proposed sassy deals to the SMG boss including reinstatemnt or compensation to his wife Gladys Shollei who coincidntally was compensated by the hugh cought few weeks back its also said he was giiven promidred millions interms of ads revenue a deal that was too sweet to drop.
According to the sources stuck deep in the media house along Mombasa Road,things are not rossy as the Jicho Pevu has threatened to pull out from the station should their work be sabotaged in any way standing firm that nothing shall be consored to suit any prty all this puts the managemnet in a hard place given that Jicho Pevu is a huge asset to the media house.
If you have noticed the promos have gone on mute either as a sign to retract or a tactic to air it abruptly which is seemingly not happening anytime soon, However with online options available,only time will tell when will watch it if at all the journalists wants the world to as of now the ball is on the other court.
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