Nzau Musau quits Star for Standard

Pius Maundu

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Nzau Musau quits Star for Standard

Nzau Musau: He is now writing for the Standard.

Yesterday, Radio Africa Group lost one of its gallant scribes to the Standard Group. 

In a Facebook post, Nzau Musau, a political writer with TheStar, announced his move to the Standard, a Standard Group publication. 

“Sad thing to say goodbye to a family, the Star family. I'm glad I did my part,” read the post in part, attractacting an avalance of reactions, some welcoming him to his new workstation. 

“Welcome to the mainstream media,” said Margaret Kanini, a one-time journalist with the Standard Group. 

“You will do great things where you are going because you did very well at The Star,” commented Samuel Kang’ethia Maina, a KIMC graduate.  

Yet scores could not believe Musau was leaving the The Star. 

Musau joined Radio Africa Group in its infancy, gaining preeminence as The Star labored its way to mainstream national newspapers echelon in Kenya. 

But it’s his witty online footprint that has endeared him and his newspaper to a prolific audience.  

On his Nzau ya Musau Facebook account, the University of Nairobi alumni would pounce on his unsuspecting workmates, making fun of a thing or two of their office culture, and attracting overwhelming reactions among his over 3,134 Facebook fans. 

For instance, he was once bewildered by a male colleague who, despite his penchant for using masculine bass to his peers,  had molten to a puddle when summoned by the HR, responding in a soft well-trained saprano. 

Besides, Musau commands a cryptic approach to initiating and managing conversations around topical issues carried in the media, and relentlessly branding his paper as a preserve of smart readers. 

“When I joined the star, my desk mate was one Nzau ya Musau. He was  a cool guy, in that, we could talk shop. This is considering he was a political reporter,” posted Joyce Kerongo on Musau’s wall.  

“He was the one guy who could give me an honest opinion about anything, and whose advice I valued.”

 

Musau’s move is the latest onslaught in Kenyan Fourth Estate. In April 2014, Nation Media Group lost Dennis Okari, an investigative genius, to the BBC.