Citizen TV has swiftly moved to suspend its top cream as it ventures into investigations that the celebrated journalists colluded with a prominent politician to kill a negative story almost a month ago. Swaleh Mdoe, Mwanahamisi Hamadi, Shisia Wasilwa, Kimeli Arap Kemei, Yusuf Ali and several others have been indefinitely suspended after it was established that they received money from a prominent Nairobi politician to kill a story about him.
The politician is said to have channeled the money to the journalists who then killed the story even after it had run in the highlights. The politician is said to have been involved in an altercation in the recently concluded Kajiado by-elections and later on abused journalists covering the event, promising them that the story would never run.
And true to his word, the story never ran as the likes of Swaleh Mdoe and Mwanahamisi Hamadi who are Swahili editors at Citizen, alongside video editors Mumbi and Lilian and celebrated reporters Sishia Wasilwa, Yusuf Ali and Kimeli Arap Kemei among others received some bribe from the politician to kill the story.
The journalists have been suspended for 10 days pending investigations and if found guilty they will effectively lose their jobs Meanwhile, for the next 10 days, Kanze Dena and Lulu Hassan, who mostly appear on TV on weekends, will be in charge of the Citizen Nipashe news.
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