They say you can meet a person and your life changes completely, that must be the moment for TV news anchor Jacque Maribe.
Maribe spent her first ever night behind bars on Saturday after being arrested as an accessory in the murder of Monica Nyawira Kimani.
Nyawira was murdered on September 19 and her body was found dumped in a bathtub the following day.
Jacque’s lover, Joseph Irungu alias Jowie, has been arrested as the key suspect in the gruesome murder.
And that is how Maribe has found herself facing one of the worst charges on the Kenyan soil.
The TV girl’s star has been rising since she graduated from the University of Nairobi where she studied journalism.
For Maribe, who comes from a wealthy family by Kenyan standards, spending a night before bars is bad enough to be hell.
Maribe was brought up just like many kids who are lucky to have parents of means.
She attended some of the best schools in the city including State House Girls.
After news broke out that the man who had swept her off her feet might have killed another woman in a way most brutal, Jacque vanished to her parents’ home and would later be taken to Kilimani DCI offices in a V8 Land Cruiser.
Photos of her protective dad who accompanied her and shielded her from the hungry cameras of her colleagues at Citizen TV among other media were all over.
That is the girl that spent a night before bars.
A journalist whose star rose to an extent of doing State House interviews to President Uhuru Kenyatta.
Now her career is on the brink of collapse.
And the trouble is that the higher you are the harder you fall.
“No employer wants a baggage. As an employee, your work is to give the company ratings by positive publicity. The moment you are in shit, they show you the door,” a human resource specialist, Joan Githu, said.
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