Linus Wang’ombe Gitahi, NMG’s CEO

In the course of our task of unearthing the sex scandal at NMG, a former colleague of Linus at the GlaxoSmithKline posted a scandalous mail in the following link http://kumekucha.blogspot.com/2007/01/sex-scandals-and-purge-hit-nation-media.html alleging that the CEO was not an angel and he was currently fighting a nasty and messy divorce case in the High Court and that he is a gay! Oooh No!

The anonymous writer called us a bunch of jokers asking why we were exposing our own bosses and we had not managed to scrutinize the past life of Linus. The insults hurled at journalists by the writer are part of our work. It’s our work as journalists not to ignore or dismiss any information or rumour. The tip off has give a new dimension to our investigation and we are following the leads given by your former colleague. However, we wish to state categorically that our mission is not to propagate and spread falsehood against any of the top NMG managers. We will only disclose what is factual and has been verified by cross-checking claims from various sources. So, Linus can rest assured that we will only expose him if we find out the truth.

And it will be interesting to know your background and history for us to be able to understand why you so passionately protect NMG managers implicated in sex scandals.

The research team has not dug out much information on Linus but we promise to bring it out in the Part Two of the sex scandal rocking the Aga Khan’s house. However, the team has made inquiries at the High Court’s Family Division and confirmed it was indeed true that Linus was at the centre of a nasty case of divorce involving another couple. But the file has disappeared from the registry and we were informed that Linus might have bribed the clerks to hide it to ensure we did not lay our hands of it.

According to lawyers privy to the divorce case, Linus found himself on the hot spot when a man who discovered he was having a secret affair with his wife filed a divorce case at the High Court. In his affidavit, the jilted lover recounts the pain he felt when he established that his wife was a girlfriend of Linus. As part of his evidence, the plaintiff has tabled in court a photograph of Linus and his wife making love in his own bed (the man's). Our investigators are trying to lay their hands on the photograph and they are also investigating claims that Linus had a soft spot for Rose Kimotho, the Kameme FM priprietor, who is also a girlfriend of many media practitioners and politicians.

The questions which have so far emerged from our preliminary investigations on Linus are: Is he actually a gay man as his former colleagues alleges? Does he have any intimate affair with Rose Kimotho? Did he ever buy the silence of his former secretary at GlaxoSmithKline after she accused him of raping her on the office carpet? Why did he drop his middle name Wang’ombe when he joined the corporate world yet this was the name everyone at the University of Nairobi knew? Did he try to influence editors of other media houses not to publish stories on his divorce case soon after taking over from Mr Kiboro for fear it would ruin his career and reputation?

If it’s true you are gay, you can take pride in that there are other gay partners you can link up with in the newsroom. Mwangi G (of 3rd floor), Rashid Ronald and Baset Biyuka (both of NTV), have found a suitor.

Unknown to the public, the media have the unwritten rule that bars any of them from exposing the dirt of their rivals or reporting any negative story that will damage their reputation. That is why no media house reports when another is sued for libel or the subsequent court proceedings. And the same silence falls when a media house is found guilty by the court and ordered to pay a fine. But the opposite is shocking. If a media house wins a libel or defamation case, they shout about it to the point of bursting your eardrums.

No media has dared to report the damaging sex scandal at NMG or the Linus divorce case. The alternative press, whom the leading media houses show a lot of contempt, has taken up the role of exposing the rot in the media houses.

However, the recent events at the alternative press political weekly, The Weekly Citizen, are indeed shocking. It’s the only paper which dared publish the story on the NMG sex scandal when it broke out but the subsequent follow up stories that were lined up did not see the light of the day after NMG’s Security Manager, Sam Koskei, visited their offices and bought all the papers rolling from the press and offered a hefty bribe to the editors of the paper.

We will keep you updated on the Linus sex life as soon as new details emerge.

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