CIKU SHOULD BE LEFT TO HAVE HER MEN AS LONG AS WE DON’T KNOW

BY NYAMBEGA GISESA
When on Tuesday evening, besieged radio personality Ciku Muiruri replied to an SMS sent to her earlier during the day with the words “Sorry, no comment

on that,” I knew that the heat had become too much for the famous buster to handle.
Before Sunday evening when the impressive investigative JichoPevu programme aired her being rather close to the condemned Artur brothers, Ciku had made her name through her radio programme Busted.
The Artur brothers held several parties since their entry to Kenya in 2005 in various places including Panari Sky Centre and at their Runda home.
During the parties there was lots of meat, alcohol and sex in a room upstairs, as one male journalist who frequented the parties put it.
While with seconds of the thrilling investigative Jicho Pevu piece, Ghururi ya Saitoti, raised the popularity of Ciku (she added about 10,000 new likes in her Facebook page in a few hours) it also raised concern if she had been involved in improper conduct with the mercenaries.
Popular for the Busted segment which unveils cheating partners, Ciku was seen getting close to deported mystery man Artur Margaryan.
In the clip, Ciku is lifted by the Armenian and carried onto a bar counter top. The two proceeded to pose for a photo with Artur’s arm placed around her shoulder.
Immediately, Kenyans on social media reacted to the suggestive clip. Making a pun out the phrase the hunter being the hunted, some posed that the buster has now been busted.
Others questioned Ciku’s relations with the infamous brothers who have been linked to drug trafficking and crime.   
The mammoth social media discussion prompted Ciku to post a lengthy Facebook post explaining her behavior in the video.
Denying claims of a love connection between her and the Artur brother, Ciku said that she was merely attending a party thrown for media professionals by the Artur brothers. She went further to claim that she attended the party as a work duty since she was the editor of Pulse at the time.
While a number of journalists were warned against attending the parties by their respective media houses, most of them went on to attend.
The Arturs used to invite a number of influential media personalities, musicians, producers and socialites to the private parties.
Eve D’Souza has told Nairobian Today that the particular one she attended was boring and she saw nothing morally wrong when the controversial pictures were being taken.
Although the clips tend to show the eyes of two adults of opposite sex possibly insinuating more than just a photo, Ciku’s explanation should be left to pass.
However, it raises fundamental questions on how media personalities should behave when they are having a drink, taking nyama choma or even when taking a photo with a man who wants to lift them up so as to create space for others.
There were tens of media personalities and socialites who attended the party and some of them, ladies, have even bragged bedding the Arturs. A number of them whom we tried to reach out for comment preferred not to react.
As the hunter in her programme Busted, Ciku can drink, smoke or sex with anyone, this is if she ever does any of these things, and play her cards right not to become the hunted.
Such influential media personalities should be careful with their poses, the ladies and men they sleep with and what happens in various events unless they want to fall like disgraced former US congressman Anthony Weiner who sent out a lewd picture of himself via Twitter.
Ciku failed herself. Evidently, her “no comment reaction” is the behavior of what happens after a scandal: It is a life in retreat.
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