How former NTV anchor sold porridge to make ends meet

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Many of the 2000s kids my not know Winnie Mukami but she is one of the old news anchors who graced our screens in the 2000s with the like of BBC’s Sophie Ikenye, Catherine Kasavuli among others, perhapd this are now the women on TV betty kyallo Lilian Muli were looking up to.

Winnie Mukami worked ay NTV from 2003-2010 when she resigned to go pursue other interests, however growing up it was not easy for this TV queen.

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While speaking in an interview with a local daily she explained how she sold porriage to make ends meet while she was still in school to manual workers at mjengos in Kitengela before she joined the EPZ as a tailor. Her big break came in 2001 when she applied for a job at the state broadcaster and got in. She worked at KBC for 2 years before joining NTV in 2003 where she worked for 7 years before she was unceremoniously booted from the station to pave way for new blood.

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In addition she said, “I got out of my job in 2010 when a ‘Tsunami’ (as it was called then) broke out, sweeping off a team, so as to usher in a new breed of journalists and anchors.Well, I cannot say it was easy despite having considered the idea of leaving even before the retrenchment announcement came.”

Years after leaving NTV Ms. Mukami  resurfaced after been appointed to the board of  Kenya Pipeline Company. She also started her own communication firm called Winners Frontiers International Limited which is doing pretty well.

 

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