Popular radio host Steve Jacob Maunda, also known as Shatta Bway, has parted ways with Radio Citizen, under the Royal Media Services (RMS) umbrella.
The station, which ranks among the most listened to countrywide, announced on Monday morning through its social media handles that the beloved presenter had departed.
Bway hosted a show titled Waks Tikitaka on Radio Citizen alongside Q-Tee and DJ Rambo running from 10 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
He also hosted a morning show on Citizen TV centering around relationship issues.
Bway explained that he was leaving the media industry at his peak to concentrate raising his two children as a widower. He is a father of two, a teenage boy aged 13 years and a younger daughter.
"Where I am at in life, I am making decisions as two parents. I have to think like a mother and as a father and I need time with my children. My son is a teenager aged 13 years old and that is the point a parent is like to lose their children unknowingly," he explained.
"I feel I need time with the children at this moment and I can't be in a career that will tie me down daily limiting me from accomplishing what I want to do with my children."
In a live broadcast he made shortly after the announcement, the radio host revealed that before joining the media industry, he served as a tout at Country Bus Station in Nairobi for two years.
"I served as a tout for two years in a bus that plied the Nairobi - Kisii - Migori route. I was still in college at the time pursuing media studies.
"Later, I tried my hand in acting and went to Kenya National Theater where I got roles as a setbooks character. It was a difficult job," he recalled.
He noted that he first joined Royal Media Service (RMS) through Viusasa where he worked as a scriptwriter, from where he made a radio demo.
"A few years later after the demo, I was called by someone called Vinny who asked me to reshare the radio demo with him. They listened to it and called me. After an interview, they told me that they were giving me a show on Radio Citizen," he added.
He further revealed that his father Jacob William Maunda, a journalist at KBC, was his role model.
