Radio presenter ‘busted’ in Jicho Pevu clip

KENYA: As Kenyans watched the thrilling investigative Jicho Pevu piece, Ghururi ya Saitoti, a shocking scene caught their attention.

Radio host Ciku Muiruri, popular for the Busted segment which unveils cheating partners, was seen getting close to deported mystery man Artur Margaryan.

In the clip, Ciku is lifted by the Armenian and carried onto a bar counter top. The two proceeded to pose for a photo with Artur’s arm placed around her shoulder.

Immediately, Kenyans on social media reacted to the suggestive clip. Making a pun out the phrase the hunter being the hunted, some posed that the buster has now been busted.

Others questioned Ciku’s relations with the infamous brothers who have been linked to drug trafficking and crime.   

Taking snips from the video, one social media user made a collage of photos showing Ciku and and Artur in questionable poses. Within minutes the photo went viral and social media responses to the incident mushroomed.

So popular was the damning clip, it took reign over the discussion on the Saitoti Crash investigation that had topped Twitter trends that evening.

The mammoth social media discussion prompted Ciku to post a lengthy Facebook post explaining her behavior in the video.

Denying claims of a love connection between her and the Artur brother, Ciku said that she was merely attending a party thrown for media professionals by the Artur brothers. She went further to claim that she attended the party as a work duty since she was the editor of a show biz magazine at the time.

“For those of you seeing it for the first time, it was shot at a bash that the Atur brothers threw for the media back in the day when their activities in Kenya were still a mystery. I was of the opinion, when it came to the Aturs, that you catch more flies with honey than vinegar…” the post read.

Ciku went on to downplay the controversial scene saying that Artur was merely helping her to get into a photo pose.

 “Atur lifted me onto a counter to make space for all of us to take a picture.”

She went on to lash out at Journalist Mohammed Ali saying that he singled her out with malicious intent. Despite her explanation, Kenyans on social media continued to question her actions in the video.