)
NTV Special features editor and news anchor Dennis Okari has disclosed that he has never tarmacked looking for a job his entire life.
Speaking in a recent interview on NTV, Okari said he started off as a producer working for KBC’s Metro TV, where he also doubled up as a video editor and reporter.
He went on to say that after leaving Metro, he joined Family Media before leaving for Mombasa based Baraka FM a station he joined because he wanted to learn Swahili.
)
I have never tarmacked looking for a job – Dennis Okari
)
)
)
Okari later left Baraka for Standard Group’s Radio Maisha but was instead deployed to work for KTN, where he left a few years later for NTV, before he was poached by the BBC.
He worked with the British Broadcaster for a few months before returning to NTV.
“I have never tarmacked looking for a job my entire life, I always say jobs tarmac looking for me. So I started off at KBC Metro TV, worked with a producer called Bwana Onguso, he was like our Tyler Perry. Onguso was the producer of Tausi, Tahamaki, those epic Swahili programmes…. So that’s where I started from Metro I went to TBN Family Media then left Nairobi went to Mombasa working for Baraka FM, I wanted to learn Swahili because my Swahili was so bad and when I came back to Nairobi I was supposed to work for Radio Maisha but then the guys eventually hired me for the Broadcast Division (TV) So, that’s my first time on KTN, then I went to Radio Africa then came to Nation Media Group. I was then poached by the BBC went worked in the UK then came back to Nation Media Group,” said Dennis Okari.
)
I have never tarmacked looking for a job – Dennis Okari
Lupita Nyong’o
During the interview, the father of one revealed that while at KBC’s Metro TV, he was Lupita Nyong’o’s producer.
“I was basically a video editor, producer cum reporter. I helped produce Lupita Nyong’o at the time she was starting out. I used to go through her scripts, and studio frame her. Seeing where she is now, I don’t know whether she will remember me you know those days we used to like really hustle even getting clothes for her to wear onset,” revealed Okari.