Miss Tourism Kilifi offered Sh200,000 to drop suit

Dethroned Miss Tourism Kenya for Kilifi County Catherine Memba, has been given an ‘offer’ to withdraw a case she filed in court last month against the event organisers.

According to the 22-year-old beauty, she had received an offer of Sh200,000 from Kilifi County deputy governor Kenneth Kamto and another lady only known as Mama Sarah, for her to drop the court case.

She told Word Is: “ I am not after money at all. I want justice to prevail. Even if I go to Kilifi County offices I can’t work well with them. Let them meet me and my lawyer in court.”

Miss Tourism Kenya Ltd’s national executive director and founder Alice Kamunge has been urging the parties concerned to resolve the issue and allow the model to represent the county.

“The Coast region is a tourist haven. It’s very shameful if a county like Kilifi misses to produce their own beauty queen to compete with others from across the country. This matter must be resolved in an amicable manner to allow development,” she said.

The Miss Tourism Kenya beauty queen will be crowned this Friday, in a grand finale to be held at Mombasa’s Mama Ngina grounds. However, seven counties will miss the fete after they failed to produce their contestants. They are Kilifi, Garissa, Mandela, Isiolo, Lamu, Tana River and Moyale.
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Miss Tourism Kilifi offered Sh200,000 to drop suit

Catherine Memba

Dethroned Miss Tourism Kenya for Kilifi County Catherine Memba, has been given an ‘offer’ to withdraw a case she filed in court last month against the event organisers.

According to the 22-year-old beauty, she had received an offer of Sh200,000 from Kilifi County deputy governor Kenneth Kamto and another lady only known as Mama Sarah, for her to drop the court case. 

She told Word Is: “ I am not after money at all. I want justice to prevail. Even if I go to Kilifi County offices I can’t work well with them. Let them meet me and my lawyer in court.”

Miss Tourism Kenya Ltd’s national executive director and founder Alice Kamunge has been urging the parties concerned to resolve the issue and allow the model to represent the county.

“The Coast region is a tourist haven. It’s very shameful if a county like Kilifi misses to produce their own beauty queen to compete with others from across the country. This matter must be resolved in an amicable manner to allow development,” she said.

The Miss Tourism Kenya beauty queen will be crowned this Friday, in a grand finale to be held at Mombasa’s Mama Ngina grounds. However, seven counties will miss the fete after they failed to produce their contestants. They are Kilifi, Garissa, Mandela, Isiolo, Lamu, Tana River and Moyale.

– See more at: http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-147604/miss-tourism-kilifi-offered-sh200000-drop-suit#sthash.BWzrPvKS.dpuf

Dethroned Miss Tourism Kenya for Kilifi County Catherine Memba, has been given an ‘offer’ to withdraw a case she filed in court last month against the event organisers.

According to the 22-year-old beauty, she had received an offer of Sh200,000 from Kilifi County deputy governor Kenneth Kamto and another lady only known as Mama Sarah, for her to drop the court case. 

She told Word Is: “ I am not after money at all. I want justice to prevail. Even if I go to Kilifi County offices I can’t work well with them. Let them meet me and my lawyer in court.”

Miss Tourism Kenya Ltd’s national executive director and founder Alice Kamunge has been urging the parties concerned to resolve the issue and allow the model to represent the county.

“The Coast region is a tourist haven. It’s very shameful if a county like Kilifi misses to produce their own beauty queen to compete with others from across the country. This matter must be resolved in an amicable manner to allow development,” she said.

The Miss Tourism Kenya beauty queen will be crowned this Friday, in a grand finale to be held at Mombasa’s Mama Ngina grounds. However, seven counties will miss the fete after they failed to produce their contestants. They are Kilifi, Garissa, Mandela, Isiolo, Lamu, Tana River and Moyale.

– See more at: http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-147604/miss-tourism-kilifi-offered-sh200000-drop-suit#sthash.BWzrPvKS.dpuf

Chikuzee kicked out of Kigoma All Stars concert

MOMBASA-based singer Abdhalla Chikuku, better known as Chikuzee, found himself in the cold last weekend after he was kicked out of a concert he was scheduled to perform.

The Kichuna hitmaker said the promoters and event organisers for the Kigoma All Stars
concert in Mombasa colluded to kick him out of the venue for reasons he
doesn’t know. The drama unfolded after Chikuzee was lured out of the
VIP area by bouncers after he was told somebody wanted to speak with him
at the gate only to find it was a plan to eject him from the event.

He said: “I arrived at the event riding in the same car with Tanzania’s
TMK Wanaume lead singer Chege. As we were chilling at the VIP area,
some bouncers came and told me that an important visitor was waiting for
me outside and that he wanted to speak to me urgently. It was a big
lie. They locked me out and demanded that I pay the Sh1,000 entrance
fee. I couldn’t because I was an invited performer. I concluded that
they never wanted Mombasa artistes to perform.”

Not even pleas from Diamond and Chege worked.

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