Writer And Blogger Njoki Chege Harassed And Mistreated At The Westgate Mall.
Controversial blogger Njoki Chege,also known as City Girl in the column she writes for The Daily Nation,teaching girls how to be gold diggers and men how to be effective cheaters,was harassed and mistreated at the Westgate Mall where she had gone to collect a feature story.
Njoki,who is never shy of making her feelings clear and attacking individuals she loathes and/or finds irrational,claimed in her latest City Girl article that she and some cameramen had been asked by her employer,Nation Media Group,to go to Westgate Mall,do a study of the place,take photos and proceed to do a promotional story on Westgate in the coming weeks.
But upon arrival at the Mall,which was reopened by the President a couple months ago,Njoki was met with what she calls rude staff and stubborn receptionist who wouldn’t let her and her crew access or talk to the PRO (Public Relations Officer).
Njoki also says that the PRO did pass them at the entrance on her way to her office and never said a word to them because she was ‘too busy’.
And upon inquiring if she would be allowed to see the PRO,she was told that she had to send an email first to that effect. Oh,protocol!
Ignoring the directive,which she viewed as analogue and time-wasting,Njoki proceeded to walk into the Mall,talk to a few shoppers and traders and take their photos too.
No sooner had she finished her guerrilla interview than some Mall officials pounced on her and her cameraman and frogmarched them to the PRO’s office. The PRO stood there… Infuriated and no-nonsense,berating her for daring take photos of the premises and ordering her and her crew to immediately delete the photos.
She hesitated… And then some burly security guys were called in. And it went downhill from there.
Narrating her unsavory ordeal,Njoki blasted the PRO,The Westgate Management and pretty much everyone else involved for the cavalier manner in which they treated journalists and handled Westgate Publicity.
Check out a part of her article below… As first published in the Nairobi News rag. And click HERE to read the rest of it.
We, therefore, defiantly went back into the mall, talked to a few traders who told us how business has failed to pick up, took their photos and started to leave.
Security stopped us. They shooed us into the management office and alas, whom do we find there? The PRO who was too busy to talk to us in the first place.
“Delete those photos!” she thundered at us, without even trying to find out what our story was about.
She didn’t even bother to look at the photos we had taken. She didn’t even bother to make sure the photos we were deleting were the ones we had taken of the mall.
In a bid to intimidate us, about five burly security officers were called in. They surrounded us, stroking their outdated radios perched on their shoulders and giving us the ‘look’.
