Marcus Olang'

Good afternoon folks!

Welcome to The Bachelor: The Kenyan Edition, and I’m your host, Marcus.

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Olang’.

On today’s show, we bring you a man of many talents: Twitter bigwig, financial expert, gentleman (He’d probably lay down his jacket for you) and all-round good guy. Plus, he probably knows your phone better than you do.

(You want to click the above link, by the way.)

And what lady doesn’t like a guy with a keen eye for detail?

Background to what?

I don’t get it. Why should it be familiar? Doesn’t matter. What matters though, is what this mystical Truthslinger thinks.

What? This Kidero chap “lent itself” the work of a superhero wielding a sling and truth? What was he thinking?

I was honestly too lazy to start looking for the original photo, but my curiosity was piqued: Who was this seemingly villainous Kidero fellow?

Boring.

Quick run by the fun stuff:

• Running for Governor of Nairobi (I’m told.)
• Married to Tom Mboya’s daughter, née Susan Akello Mboya (I’m told.)
• Last time he was on Twitter was New Year’s eve. Before which most of his updates were via Facebook. (Hear the collective cringe.)

In summary:

The guy allegedly running for Nairobi governor allegedly borrowed (without permission, allegedly) the work of a photographer whose blog is allegedly one of the most visited photoblogs on the continent and allegedly used said photo in a poster that’s alleged to be part of the build-up to the 2012 election.

So the stealing has started months in advance of said election. Allegedly.

In all fairness, maybe it was someone in his team that thought:

“Ah, they can’t possibly figure it out if I cropped the bottom half of the photo.”

I’m told the Mexicans have a word for that. “Cojones”.

I get the feeling I forgot something.

Oh yes, the cameras.

That’s it for today’s edition of The Bachelor…

Bah. This isn’t working. Forget it.

And Mwirigi, you’re welcome. It’s the least I could do.

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Update, Jan 04, 2012, 1553hrs: This Mwirigi… With modesty to boot, I tell you.