{"id":27054,"date":"2021-05-03T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T16:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/?p=27054"},"modified":"2021-05-03T15:28:11","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T15:28:11","slug":"watch-jeff-koinange-ambush-citizen-tv-director-during-bulletin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/watch-jeff-koinange-ambush-citizen-tv-director-during-bulletin","title":{"rendered":"Watch Jeff Koinange Ambush Citizen TV Director During Bulletin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\">Kenya<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span><b>Citizen TV<\/b><\/p>\n<p>news anchors Victoria Rubadiri and Jeff Koinange ambushed one of their news directors during a live bulletin.<\/p>\n<p>The incident, which occurred at the tail end of the duo&#8217;s Sunday Live Show on May 2, was held to mark the birthday of celebrated director and producer Monica Kiragu.<\/p>\n<p>The two news anchors first put up the image of the director on the screen alongside the words &#8216;Happy Birthday&#8217; before declaring that they could not end the show without honouring her.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We cannot let this broadcast end without acknowledging and honouring a very special person. You are not going to walk away from this show Monica. There is no way,&#8221; declared Koinange.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you don&#8217;t know who that person is, she is in our ears every single Sunday,&#8221; added Rubadiri.<\/p>\n<p>The two then unveiled several gifts for her during the live broadcast including a cake with Koinange referring to her as a super director.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We acknowledge and we appreciate you,&#8221; stated Koinange even as the birthday girl shied away from the camera and refused to be video taped.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2017, Kiragu has served as Jeff Koinange&#8217;s producer after accomplished producers and directors at the station shied away from him.<\/p>\n<p>In a previous interview with Kenyans.co.ke, Kiragu explained that she was challenged to produce for him even though he espoused a tough demeanor that made the producers at the station question whether they could handle him on-screen.<\/p>\n<p>Since their union, the two have made JKLive and Sunday Live among the most watched TV shows in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Kiragu is a veteran in the media industry having launched her career at Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) in 2002 before moving to Citizen TV in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>She worked at KBC for 10 years and rose through the ranks to become the head of news production. At Citizen TV, Kiragu is the head of directors.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the video:<\/p>\n<p>? Happy Birthday Super Director Monica Kiragu ? pic.twitter.com\/SzYUe3YgsY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Kenya. Citizen TV news anchors Victoria Rubadiri and Jeff Koinange ambushed one of their news directors during a live bulletin. The incident, which occurred at the tail end of the duo&#8217;s Sunday Live Show on May 2, was held to mark the birthday of celebrated director and producer Monica Kiragu. The two news [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":27053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,8,16],"tags":[6857,7003,544],"class_list":["post-27054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-culture-and-art","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-kenya","tag-kenya"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Watch Jeff Koinange Ambush Citizen TV Director During Bulletin - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Citizen TV news anchors Victoria Rubadiri and Jeff Koinange ambushed one of their news directors during a live b ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/watch-jeff-koinange-ambush-citizen-tv-director-during-bulletin\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Watch Jeff Koinange Ambush Citizen TV Director During Bulletin\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Citizen TV news anchors Victoria Rubadiri and Jeff Koinange ambushed one of their news directors during a live b ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/watch-jeff-koinange-ambush-citizen-tv-director-during-bulletin\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-05-03T16:39:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2021\/05\/img-6090167272e81.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"360\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/watch-jeff-koinange-ambush-citizen-tv-director-during-bulletin#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/watch-jeff-koinange-ambush-citizen-tv-director-during-bulletin\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Watch Jeff Koinange Ambush Citizen TV Director During Bulletin\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-05-03T16:39:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/watch-jeff-koinange-ambush-citizen-tv-director-during-bulletin\"},\"wordCount\":337,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/watch-jeff-koinange-ambush-citizen-tv-director-during-bulletin#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2021\/05\/img-6090167272e81.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Kenya\",\"Kenya\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"culture and art\",\"homepage-english\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/watch-jeff-koinange-ambush-citizen-tv-director-during-bulletin#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/watch-jeff-koinange-ambush-citizen-tv-director-during-bulletin\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/watch-jeff-koinange-ambush-citizen-tv-director-during-bulletin\",\"name\":\"Watch Jeff Koinange Ambush Citizen TV Director During Bulletin - 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