This story
first appeared on Kenya Today Website on Nov 13th Dec. Bogonko had disappeared!
He was gone. And ‘NO’ one spoke about it. He just went. Disappeared! Just like that. Just few hustlers asked
about him…at least they were concerned.
Then, later, rumours
had it that Bogonko had been found! How? Where? By who? There was some confusion. Where had he been? What really happened? Questions were asked but, no one answered them. This guy is either dead or
alive! That’s it. It can't be both. Jackal News is on and running, and yes, his facebook account (https://www.facebook.com/bosire.bogonko) is operational and active!
The irony is
that ‘he’ shared the below story (Today at around 12.40pm). The story written by Dikembe Disembe has been running on different platforms since last year. The big question is, why would he share the story? What is his intention? Is he really the one? Who is operating this account?
I am just a concerned Kenyan, who 'cares' just like you do. Roy Ogolla 'disappeared' and it was his friends who came to break up the story. Did this guy have friends? Of course except for Itumbi! I dont know him personally neither have shared with a platform...enough said...
Then, just this story was published (13.30pm), the story posted by Bogonko had been removed from his timeline!!!!!!!!!
Below is the story he did share...
Read on!
Blogger Bogonko
Bosire worked hard for them and just disappeared
By Dikembe Disembe
That
Dickson Bogonko Bosire of Jackal News was a thorough man is beyond any iota of
doubt. Indeed, he was a very thorough man. He took on media personalities,
politicians, vulture capitalists in Kenya’s corporate sector and literally
wrote President Uhuru Kenyatta to the presidency.
He
sympathised with helpless people. He abhorred injustice and worker oppression.
He seemed to draw strength from busting high-handed managers. He disliked
mediocrity, ever pointing out sanctimonious errors by news editors and writers.
Poorly
paid journalists inboxed him for juicy stories about their bosses, or
colleagues. Government officials sent him their tribulations. Police officers
earning peanuts called him. Leaked staff payroll of top media houses were
delivered to him. In fact, sometimes, it appeared media owners contacted him to
help fight their market wars!
He
wrote sweetly about Julie Gichuru of Citizen TV and Nyatichi Nyasani. He
worshipped Uhuru, just like he worshipped beer, guiness to be precise. He held
Moses Kuria in high esteem, was personally known to Jeff Koinange and in this
city, was like a twin brother to blogger-turned-government official, Dennis
Itumbi.
Statehouse ‘leaks’ were treated as commands. He told us first about the pending
demolition of of the office of the former hapless government spokesman. He
accused the holder, Muthui Kariuki, of excessive alcoholism. It came to pass.
He
disliked men who beat women just as he vilified men who allowed their wives to
sleep with other men. He called Frank Shebesh a ‘weak’ man. He took on women
who did not want men to have a peace of mind. On this, he haunted Caroline
Mutoko. He wrote very juicy things about Sabina Chege, the women Rep from
Murang’a. Ooh, Bogonko Bosire had a soft spot for Jacky Maribe. When this writer
told off one Julie Wang’ombe, a lousy speech-writer who was being overrated for
doing a low quality but oversold Uhuru’s first victory speech; Bogonko
descended on me hammer and tongs. . .he accused me of posting pictures of naked
female students in my college room. He made sure he destroyed those who crossed
Uhuru’s many paths. He, I repeat again, worshipped Kenyatta.
Here
was a man known in high society. Here was a man feared in high society. He
busted Bob Collymore of Safaricom, accusing Kenya’s most taxed man of rocking a
poor man’s marriage. He had nothing to worry about, or so we thought.
He
built an army of admirers, gullible thousands of youths whom he sold candidate
Uhuru as a god. Told them to vote first and think later.
Bogonko
did not gossip, much as his media empire, Jackal News, was filled with fleshy
tidbits of official gossip. He wrote about social issues where a chaff of truth
was covered in a basket of lies, innuendoes and half truths. He did not create
a world; only espoused on a universe that already was existing.
Bogonko
strove to find a paradise lost in this city of mean people.
Whether
writing about love, politics, high society illicit sex escapades or other
journalists and their grotesque shapes or mannerisms, Bogonko Bosire had a
unique style and form. A towering figure above his colleagues, he knew his
trade, held the grasp of issues which counted and formed his characters in such
a manner that no one would doubt who the author was.
He
build Jackal News at a time his peers were still fixated by mainstream media.
Bogonko’s
news sources were every where. As I said, here was a man who owned news – the
rest were either sources or targets. During the last elections, Bogonko Bosire
was the only blogger in ‘western Kenya’ who openly stood by Uhuru. He
worshipped the current president. Uhuru’s enemies were Bogonko’s enemies.
Uhuru’s ‘digital message’ was embodied in the person of Bogonko Bosire. He
wrote Uhuru to the presidency, and then, he just disappeared.
Before
he was gone, rumours had it that he had been operating from Statehouse. His
loyalty had paid off. He was without doubt very competent. He deserved a role
in a government which still had enemies and detractors – real or imagined – to
deal with. If anything, Uhuru’s government was won first on social media, and,
if he ever will lose it; the first fall will be felt here – on social media, on
blogs and face book pages and groups and on twitter.
Then
he disappeared. Just like that! High society kept queit. The police went
silent. Jeff Koinange said Denis Itumbi knew his whereabouts. He assured that
the man was not missing. Itumbi did not rebuff Jeff’s assertions on national
TV. Moses Kuria has not uttered a word. Eric Ng’eno, the man whom Bogonko
worked tireless under in some “Dark Arts” formation during elections and is
currently in charge of speeches at Statehouse. . .this Ng’eno whom Bosire was
rumoured to be working under at Statehouse, has not said a word.
Mainstream
media journalists – those Bogonko loved and always talked of escaping to go
fish with; those the man praised and adored, and yes, those he abhorred the
mere mention of their souls; all these are silent. Jacky Maribe is silent. Carole
Kimutai who wrote a very ‘nostalgic’ feature on Bogonko is quiet too. No
candles, no vigil, no rant; just soulless quietude!
Uhuru
Kenyatta! The man whose enemies spilled over to Bogonko Bosire. He worshipped
you. The president has not ‘particularly’ said a thing about this man. It is as
if he was unknown to him; like us, struggling thanklessly for rulers of our
time. Could it be that Uhuru has never heard the ‘rumours’ that Bogonko Bosire
is missing? Could it be that we are witnessing a prank that has pulled over the
poor old forks of Bosire all the way from Kisii to come to capital FM to cry
about a son they know his whereabouts?
Even
as Jeff Koinange claimed that the man was not missing and that Itumbi was aware
of his current whereabouts; in an ugly twist, Itumbi later denied, sparking all
manner of accusations from other bloggers that he (Itumbi) murdered Bogonko.
Is
Bogonko Bosire dead? What does the term ‘disappeared’ means? What is the police
doing? Why the silence among friends ‘who mattered’? Why the spiral of silence?
A friend asked: Had Bogonko Bosire been a son to some senior ambassador, or top
politician, or a wealthy corporate magnet, or a relative, like the late Mbugua,
of the president, would his fate be a matter of public conjecture?
“Ahos!”
another retorted, “had he been all that you are mentioning, he would never have
been a Bogonko Bosire in the first place!”
Confounding,
isn’t it?
