His father died when he was just two months old<\/h3>\n
Jeff, in the interview, said that his father died two months after he was born leaving his mother a widow with three other children to care of meaning he had to step up his hustle from a young age but he doesn’t regret as much.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy father died the day I turned two months old, leaving a 28 year old widow to care for four kids on her own, and she did don\u2019t just imagine things,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p>\n ”\u00a0Also because if he was around, we might have ended up as some really spoilt brats as kids, and I\u2019m glad we didn\u2019t end up that way. So, you know, it\u2019s not my calling, but, I think it\u2019s a good thing he went.<\/em><\/p>\n He added:<\/p>\n “And look, that\u2019s what people think, it\u2019s the stereotypical image they have of me, and I hope I can set the record straight with the book, because, everyone thinks I grew up privileged.<\/em><\/p>\n I do go broke, just like the next person. But because I was born into a family name like this, \u2018Koinange,\u2019 they say, \u201cOh, you people have a street named after you, your people were in government for the last 50 years.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n And for me it\u2019s like, you know what, that\u2019s all well and good, but listen to my story, listen to the fact that my father died the day I turned two months old, leaving a 28 year old widow to care for four kids on her own, and she did. You know, read the story, don\u2019t just imagine.<\/em><\/p>\n “This is exactly why people are so misunderstood. And it is also why I think it\u2019s important for everyone to write their story, because, people assume whatever they want to assume.<\/em><\/p>\n Even then, at the end of the day, I might not be able to convince some people. They\u2019ll still sit and think, this is just a book, it\u2019s just a story. And that\u2019s unfortunate.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Despite being worth Ksh 50 million, presenter Jeff Koinange sometimes looks at his bank account and sighs with disappointment. The popular journalist confessed in an interview that he also goes broke sometimes just like any other ordinary Kenyan despite his wealthy family background and thick portfolio. \u201cI go broke, just like the next person. But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6017,"featured_media":47881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[310,1],"tags":[1005,554,5845,33168],"class_list":["post-47878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-uncategorized","tag-jeff-koinange-baby-locks-news","tag-jeff-koinange-news","tag-jeff-koinanges-son-news","tag-jeff-okello-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6017"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47878"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47940,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47878\/revisions\/47940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/01\/IMG_1428.jpg\")