10 interesting things you didn’t know about Citizen TV’s Linus Kaikai

Linus Ole Kaikai is a Kenyan top journalist with wide experience and education in journalism. He is currently the managing editor at the Kenya’s Nation Television, NTV.

He was the moderator at the first presidential debate in Kenyan election history.

His unbiasedness to any politician during the debate indicated how professional he was.

Here are some interesting facts about Linus:

1. He holds a Master Degree in Journalism from the University of Westminster, in London United Kingdom.

2. Before joining NTV, he has worked for both KTN and South Africa Broadcasting Corporation (SABC).

3. In 1997 he was awarded the CNN African Television Journalist Award.

4. In 2012, he married Jacinta Mueni at wedding ceremony held at Nkoroi Catholic Church in Kajiado. They have three children.

5. In 1998, he won the Environmental Journalist of the Year Award.

6. He was rescued by police from gang of kidnappers who attacked him in his gate in Rongai. That was in 2013.

7. He has produced different documentaries that are of high ranking. The rift in the valley(2008), Across 18 holes(2013), The making of the constitution(2010) and Moi, Mwai and Mwigai (2013) are political documentaries that have attracted huge audience.

8. He is one of the few journalists who have ever interview Nelson Mandela.

9. In 2015, Linus and Robert Alai had a fierce and personal confrontation on social media about Nairobi Aviation College. Kaikai had run a story about the institution claiming that it offers fake certificates an idea that Alai felt was unjust.

10. He is the chairman of editor’s guild. Through the union he has advocated for press freedom and condemned the government initiatives to control the media.