How Jeff Koinange And Larry Madowo Were ‘Smoooooked’ By Capital FM’s Olive Burrows During Obama Visit

It was a debate that started when White House and State House announced that POTUS, a Kenyan-American man leading the world’s most revered Superpower, would be visiting Kenya this July.

Larry Madowo and Jeff Koinange started it off and had to bet on who would be privileged to sit down Barack Obama and have an interview with him.

These two gentlemen were so optimistic until yesterday when they saw Air Force One drive through the runway, gather pace and cruise into the Machakos County skies and into Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Obama had ended his three day visit to Kenya as the first ever sitting US President. All the time he was around, Larry Madowo had a tight schedule on air at NTV while Jeff Koinange was nowhere to be seen except on social media.

Even after I drafted an article on Thursday explaining why Larry and Jeff wont interview Obama, they kept their hopes high. I had said that it could be impossible for any journalist to sit Obama down for an exclusive interview. I was wrong too.

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Olive Burrows with President Barack Obama

Capital FM stunned us all. No one saw this coming. And this is why Chris Kirubi remains the only DJ around.

As media houses kept a distance and panned their cameras from the fences to capture what Obama was doing, Capital FM had a room well prepared, microphones well set and Olive Burrows dressed in a nice black dress ready to share with Obama.

Yes, she did, much to our consternation. I mean, none of us saw this coming. We all know Larry, Jeff, Chamwada, Julie, et al are some of the celebrated media interviewers we have around. But none of them was considered for this.

Thank God the bet the two made will go to some charity organization. But Olive just stole the show.  And so did Capital FM.

Here is how it happened: