Was Bonoko Fired From Ghetto Radio? Ghafla Investigates

Mid last week, Bonoko announced that he had been dismissed from Ghetto Radio for allegedly being  a street urchin. His words not mine.

A pity-party was then promptly thrown on his timeline but I did not join in. Not because I’m a cold-blooded woman with an ice-box for a heart but because there are two sides to every story. So I called up Liz Njuguna of Ghetto Radio and also a writer for their website. Liz declined to respond and asked me to call up Maji Maji the owner of the station since he was in the best position to respond to that. Before I called up Maji Maji I asked Liz for DJ Bling’s number the man who had been accused of icily firing Bonoko, DJ Bling however did not want to be caught up in the circus and told Liz just that.

I called up Maji Maji but my calls went unreturned so the next top was Ghetto Radio. My colleague Tony and I boarded one of those 6/9 Eastleigh Matatus and we were dropped off at Equity where we were informed that Ghetto Radio was directly opposite it.

We sauntered towards the unappealing brown building which is older than most of Ghafla readers. We made our way up the dingy, badly lit staircase which reeked of ammonia and for a while I questioned whether we were in the right building. About 2-3 floors up, we landed at the station which was a far cry from the putrid, shadowy staircase. It was well lit and decently furnished. You cannot judge a station by its stairway.

The well-mannered watch lady at the door step went in to get someone to respond to us and out came a very curvy lady. We asked her why Bonoko had been fired and she unwaveringly refused to respond saying that she was not on duty when the incident went down. ‘So an incident went down?’ we asked.’ No’ she said emphasizing that she was in no position to respond.

We probed further but to no avail, we realties that we would have better luck flogging a dead horse than getting an answer from her.

So we had to leave more determined than ever to get an answer so we called up Maji Maji. He picked up the phone and when he heard it was Ghafla he said ‘let me call you back’.
As expected, he never called back so we called him up and he picked up after a while but to only cut our calls. He then texted that he was in a meeting so we texted him .Our texts were left unanswered and till today our calls have gone unreciprocated.
This begs so many questions. What really went down that people from Ghetto Radio have chosen to remain so tight-lipped? Was someone punched? Did Bonoko throw a tantrum on his way out? Did he quit after he was denied a chance at hosting his own show? Or was Bonoko double-crossed?Or was it all a publicity stunt?

We had questions and we needed answers and the shifty reaction to our questions only peaked our interest.

I went to Bonoko’s timeline and things seem peachy and Bonoko has since deleted his post of being fired.Hmm…i guess things got better over the weekend.