Nation Media Group’s Boniface Mwalii Fuels War Of Words On Media Wars!

I doubt that when he penned the article “Out With The Old In With The Old”, Buzz’s Boniface Mwalii knew he was courting controversy… Or maybe he did. Who knows. The article in question might have been a strongly worded thinly veiled attack on K24.

It appeared on Sunday’s Buzz issue on the 24th of March. The article was about the recent re-branding of K24 and the poaching they have been doing. Boniface Mwalii’s piece was in a word, scathing. But that was an opinion piece that gave his take.

Whatever his play was, it lit a fire with Kenyans On Twitter speculating on whether the article was NMG’s stand on K24’s attempts at gutting Citizen by poaching most of it’s news anchors. Boniface spoke about the fact that the news started a whole 30 minutes late. Instead of starting at 9pm, it started at 9:30pm. Then he tore into the anchors “mitumba 2 3/4 piece suits”. Burn!

<Boniface Mwalii is the lad on the left>

Burn he didn’t stop there. He railed at the graphics design of the whole station and poked fun at whether the K24 top brass ran out of money before they could poach Citizen’s graphics designer. The article was hilarious to say the least but it raised quite the storm.

Here are some of the comment that were tweeted about the article:

“@iwittness naona mmenza ka tweef na @K24Tv“

“@iWITTness ‘Out with the old, in with the old.’ What a piece!!!!”

“@iWITTness Haha, hit below the belt on this one. Lmfao”

“@iwittness 4ua info SKCORD tv begun on a worse footing b4 WW put whea it’s been-kudos UK24!”

Read about how NMG lost out when one of their top presenters on Q Fm quit. And read about Maina Kageni’s switch to Nation Media Group.