{"id":920049,"date":"2022-01-27T14:16:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T14:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/27\/radio-host-apologises-for-mocking-buruburu-family-over-their-lost-dog\/"},"modified":"2022-01-27T14:16:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T14:16:13","slug":"radio-host-apologises-for-mocking-buruburu-family-over-their-lost-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/27\/radio-host-apologises-for-mocking-buruburu-family-over-their-lost-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio host apologises for mocking Buruburu family over their lost dog"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Homeboyz Radio morning show presenters G-Money (L) and Charlie Karumi (R).<\/strong> [Courtesy]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A Homeboyz radio presenter has been forced to apologise to a family in Buruburu, Nairobi for making unpleasant comments on air about the family\u2019s missing dog.\n<\/p>\n

In their Thursday morning show, G-Money and his co-host Charlie Karumi, criticised the family for offering an Sh10,000 reward for their missing dog, saying the animal did not come from any of Nairobi\u2019s high-end estates. <\/p>\n

\u201cNow, there is a\u00a0Sh10, 000 for Bo,\u201d G-Money said.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cYou mean Sh10, 000 for a missing dog from Buruburu? I thought you were going to say Karen or Muthaiga. [The reward for] a dog from Buruburu should be Sh500,\u201d Karumi added.<\/p>\n

The dog owners, Josiah and Jessica Mwangi, said their pet went missing on Tuesday, January 25 and was found dead on Thursday morning, January 27 in Buruburu.\n<\/p>\n

The Mwangis say it\u2019s only G-Money who called to apologise for the demeaning comments after learning that the dog had died.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cTwitter users piled pressure on him to apologise,\u201d Jessica told The Standard. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe received G-Money\u2019s apology via text message,\u201d she added.\n<\/p>\n

Uproar\n<\/p>\n

Several online users had called out the presenters for profiling city dwellers\u2019 lifestyles based on what they believed to be the residents\u2019 purchasing power.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cDoes it matter that someone [from Buruburu] put up a reward for his lost dog? Is it your money [that he\u2019s pledging]?\u201d posed Naomi Mutua.\n<\/p>\n

The Mwangis\u2019 dog, named Bo, was six years old. <\/p>\n

In their missing pet alert circulated on Wednesday, Jessica and Josiah said: \u201cOur dog Bo has been missing for the last 24 hours. He is a 6-year-old dog. Black in colour with splashes of white. A mix of a terrier and a spitz. He answers to his name Bo, but he\u2019s not used to being out alone, and might be afraid and aggressive.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Jessica said she suspects her pet was killed by other aggressive dogs in the estate.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Homeboyz Radio morning show presenters G-Money (L) and Charlie Karumi (R). [Courtesy] A Homeboyz radio presenter has been forced to apologise to a family in Buruburu, Nairobi for making unpleasant comments on air about the family\u2019s missing dog. In their Thursday morning show, G-Money and his co-host Charlie Karumi, criticised the family for offering an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-920049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}