Revealed: Why The Cast Of Vitimbi Is Languishing In Poverty

A hollow-eyed, feeble Mzee Ojwang was rescued by Sonko’s rescue team recently and we could not help but flinch in embarrassment.

The veteran actor who had entertained us for decades and performed in front of presidents and V.I.P’s was a far cry from his legendary status. He was suffering from partial blindness and his condition was deteriorating badly and no help was forthcoming until Sonko’s team came in.

He was rescued from a humble abode and many wondered how he was still languishing in poverty after all these years. Had KBC abandoned him after he worked for them faithfully? Had we let him down as Kenyans?

My colleague Cabu Gah caught up with Ngomongo, another star of Vitimbi a man who has lived in Dandora since 1985 and was still living in squalor. He lived in a 2 bed roomed house in Dandora Phase 1 alongside his two sons in high school.

What happened to these people we asked ourselves, were they ripped off or were they well paid but decided to squander their savings?

Reports that Mama Kayai and Mzee Ojwang’ had been fired infuriated us even further and KBC was eyeballed angrily for letting down their stars.

We sought to find out how Vitimbi died and how the stars ended up wasting away poverty from a trusted source in the confines of the station.

The source revealed that the Vitimbi crew were the weavers of their own destiny, that they are suffering because of their own slip-ups. There was actually a point they were pocketing 150,000 shillings per month and allegedly earned even more than the news anchors. But they misspent it. To make matters worse, they decided that they no longer wanted Vitimbi to be part of KBC, something which blew up in their faces considering they made Vitimbi a personal business venture.

In addition, the team failed to ‘adapt to the times’ and thus locked out advertisers, making them a liability and forcing KBC to cut them off completely.